Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well aware of the disruptive effects and the hardships." At Committee Chairman Richard Russell's request, McNamara pledged an additional qualification. There would be, promised he, no repeat of "the tragedy of Korea," in which World War II veterans were recalled to active duty while able younger men escaped entirely...
...Unemployment should drop sharply. The military call-up will remove more than 200,000 men from the labor force -virtually all of them in the younger-workers category, where unemployment is particularly high. For every 100 defense-plant jobs it creates, partial mobilization will create scores more in industries that service the plants and the armed forces...
Parents on a book hunt are well advised to adopt the following rule: the younger the child, the better the books that are available. Books for tots are usually splashed with color, well designed, and sometimes contain surprising riches of fun and wonder. Older children would be better off kicking the kiddy-bait habit and graduating to Huckleberry Finn. A sampling of the season's best offerings for small fry and a few distinctive items for older children...
Racists & Razors. The decision to maintain standards has been a long uphill fight. Soon after integration, white and Negro students began living by gangland rule. Bullies of both races extorted nickels and dimes from younger students; when arguments started, the races closed ranks. To prevent gang fights, teachers patrolled the lavatories, frisked pupils for razors, switchblades, and beer can openers with honed edges. Though officials hushed up the mess for three years, the lid blew off in 1958, when young Negro toughs beat up two white teachers. White students fled the school, and few dreamed that it would ever...
...Earthly Daemon." Paint them he did, with a vehemence and crash of color that soon won him the esteem of fellow painters. He was invited to join Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others in a group of younger revolutionary artists called die Brücke (the Bridge), who had set up shop in 1905 in an empty Dresden butcher's store. A loner by instinct, he quit them after a year and a half, afraid that togetherness would dilute his grim, self-imposed sense of artistic mission. Similarly, he shunned the trail-blazing Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) circle, although...