Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upper decks, dozens of old men claimed that they had been in the park the day the Babe housebroke it with a home run, April 18, 1923. Younger men claimed that they watched the day Mantle hit the ball that almost was the only one to clear the stadium, still rising when it smashed against the third deck tier, 565 feet from home plate...
Sometime Lay Evangelist Jimmy Carter is not the only member of his Southern Baptist family to plunge into religious work. His younger sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, 46, has been on the Gospel trail for nine years both preaching and practicing what she calls "healing of memories." She works not only with her fellow Protestants but with Roman Catholics as well; 5,000 of them attended one of her healing sessions in Atlantic City last October. She also conducted spiritual workshops in 75 other U.S. cities last year, as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and England...
...DiMaggio looked good-slim, dignified, younger than his 61 years, very classy. When DiMaggio was in kindergarten, the other kids probably came up to him and said, "Joe, you look good." When DiMaggio visits the Louvre, if he does, the Venus de Milo probably waits until they are alone and whispers, "Joe, you look good." "Welcome back, Joe," said several fans who happened to run into him and to remember back to the '40s, when he was making impossible catches with the poise of Charles Boyer stealing jewels. After DiMaggio had thanked them and moved away, the fans said...
Howard, 47, is a prolific translator and critic of poetry, as well as an indefatigable champion of younger poets. His five previous books of original poems were longer on erudition than passion. The same dry, academic rustle is audible at times in Fellow Feelings, but a number of poems seem lived rather than researched. An elegy to W.H. Auden begins with an epigrammatic snap that the late master might have enjoyed...
...Vatican Council in 1963 failed to take root in the seventies. With this failure, the support for liturgical and ministerial creativity began to dwindle also. "We had stressed creativity in our early years," Griffin said, "but the pressure and support for it decreased as time went on. The younger students in the community were not as conscious of the Church reforms brought on by Vatican II. I started to notice a new emphasis emerging, one which was more interested in a private piety and less interested in the larger social issues which some felt were being dragged in from...