Word: younger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hoffman pleaded guilty and served time on lesser charges. Though dismayed by the apolitical younger generation -- "Never trust anyone under 30," he declared -- he never stopped protesting. It was Timothy Leary, the advance scout of the LSD generation, who eulogized Hoffman most deftly last week. "An American legend," Leary called him. "Right up there in the hall of fame with rebel Huck Finn, rowdy Babe Ruth and crazy Lenny Bruce...
With that statement, Wright raised the stakes of this in-House scandal for the Democrats assembled around him. It is said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from...
...March of 1990, Bozzotto's term as president of Local 26 will end, and the Local 26 leader says he is unsure whether he will run again. He says that he would like to allow the union's "younger leadership to grow and expand...
...politics of 1969 were ripe with promise. The promise that a freer, more equal society was about to be born. The efforts to make America extend its promises of liberty and justice to women, minorities and the poor. The promise that a younger generation could rise up and present an alternative direction for the nation...
Instead of racing past him (which is probably what my younger sister would do), Deming helped her older brother finish the last five miles...