Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...travel, he beat Peterson by 15,000 votes. "We paced him just right," says Tiemann's campaign manager, David Pierson. "When election day came, we figured he was just about 14 hours away from total collapse." In the general election, Tiemann walloped liberal Democratic Lieutenant Governor Philip Sorensen, younger brother of ex-Presidential Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, by more than 100,000 votes...
...company reached the U.N. without incident after an hour's walk. They had been too quiet, too dignified to provoke trouble. But the march continued all afternoon. At 5:30 when rain finished it, thousands had yet to reach the U.N. As the marchers to the rear got younger and hippier and their slogans wittier, incidents multiplied...
...incredible get-ups which many of the younger demonstrations sported were often too much even for the police. Many a sergeant broke into a jolly guffaw at the sight of a boy wearing a banana-peel headpiece or a girl covered with psychedelic paint. And on the bus from the U.N. after the rally one cop had a friendly chat with a couple of demonstrators who complimented the police on the handling of the crowd. That was credit where credit was due. No matter what the police thought of it, they handled the protest well...
...early days after the accession to power by the communists, both in Russia and later in the other countries of Eastern Europe, there appeared to be considerable enthusiasm exhibited by a significant portion, at least, of the younger generation. Although morale among the youth sagged at times, the revolution, the Civil War, and the period of the first Five-Year Plan sparked considerable youthful idealism in Soviet Russia. Whatever enthusiasm had been generated, however, soon wore off by the mid-thirties. Continuous forced effort with little reward, and a stifling of self-expression in the arts and elsewhere after Stalin...
...information was given, however, with respect to what constituted the "fundamental elements of the system" (i.e., a definition of socialism). The communist regimes will continue to have problems building a new mode of thinking, in creating the "new socialist man" so long as they fail to develop in the younger generation a belief in Marxism Leninism as a living doctrine. They will fail to the extent they are unsuccessful in developing in the minds of young people an identity between Marxism-Leninism as an image of an ideal society, and Marxism-Leninism as a cumulative body of practice...