Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than oldsters who best remembered the Great Depression. The striking result: "Of the Eisenhower voters who are under 35 years of age whom I interviewed, nearly half said they intended to vote Democratic this fall." The reason: "Overburdened with debt for new homes and autos as many of the younger workers were, and with little seniority to hold their jobs, they have been perhaps the one element in the population hit hardest by the economic downturn...
Many people, I feel sure, will be grateful for your story [Sept. 8] on Milton Eisenhower, the President's younger brother. I am glad to find that I was wrong in my belief that he was a liberal of the type to be feared, in view of his closeness to the President...
...Rough Edges. Just as bridgedom's envious experts now call Goren's hard-earned credentials into question, so a younger, hungrier Charles Goren sniped at Ely Culbertson. Ely, cried Goren in the early days, was all through-and had never been really great anyhow. The inner drive that carried Charlie Goren past Culbertson was sharpened by the rough edges of poverty in his Philadelphia childhood. The son of Russian-born Jewish immigrants, he grew up in a brawling district of "Jews, Irish and Irish." Charlie made up for small size with pugnacity, endurance, and indifference to pain. Recalls...
Harvard will welcome his return. Karim had been a good student. Like his younger brother Amyn, a junior this year, the prince had made the dean's list. One of his roommates was Adlai Stevenson's youngest son, John Fell, who said: "His friendship is loyal and thoughtful, and he gives more than he takes...
...business as Toni finds that her familiar world is steadily rotting away because of the unease felt by the people around her. An old neighbor lady whom she has known from childhood cuts her on the street. At her summer school her instructor barely disguises his leer. Her younger sister pruriently prods her with questions. And Stan Walters shifts rapidly from guilt and remorse to jealousy and suspicion, accuses her of having invited the attack. Gradually, Toni moves into a limbo beyond sanity, and begins to wonder if in some way she had not asked for what happened. At length...