Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then the President rushed off to receive a visitor about whom he was openly curious: Laos Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, the man whose inertia in the face of the Communists has been the despair of U.S. policy planning for two years. The President found the placid Prince looking far younger than his 60 years, and, if no minds were changed on either side, the U.S. did announce that it will remove its last troops from neighboring Thailand...
...games of touch football (and in Ethel's case, by immersion tests in the Kennedy swimming pool); they may also be accompanied by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who may not be a touch footballer but knows a thing or two about mountains. Bobby's three younger children, aged five, four and two, will stay on at Hyannisport, presumably to train for a later assault on Mount Everest...
...because you know as a professional military man that it's just so. You've got to prove it now." To help prove it, the military are belatedly paying the Whiz Kids the most familiar form of flattery: they themselves are now bringing in younger, university-trained soldier-scientists to act as the military equivalent of the Whiz Kids...
McCormack, Massachusetts Attorney General and nephew of Speaker of the House John McCormack, hurdled a challenge at the President's younger brother, a challenge to debate with him "on radio, on television and in person...
Many of the older Negroes, recalling what life was like during their youths, share in this sanguineness. The younger ones are caught between an attatchment to home and their families' traditions, and the knowledge that they might do better elsewhere, or even in Chestertown if they defy their parents. (Getting away from home is a real problem for these young people. One of the brightest of them, for instance, quit Morgan State College in Baltimore after three months because he was too homesick; others have thought to make careers in the army, and then quit after two lonely years...