Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democrat Barnett is fond of pointing to his childhood poverty. "We were poor, poor," he says. "I wasn't raised in a hothouse." The youngest of ten children, he paid his way through Mississippi College and the University of Mississippi law school by working as a barber and a janitor. But once he got his law degree, he left poverty behind. Specializing in damage suits, he proved to be a skillful picker and swayer of juries, became the state's top lawyer in his field, with an income estimated at $100,000 a year...
Before that, I could always remember being the youngest man in any large crowd of party people. I can still see those meetings: greybeards and guys on crutches, all saying 'That won't work because we know better...
...Todos los Santos, born a fortnight ago, was trundled into the boudoir of her mother, Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, the only child of Spain's Francisco Franco. All was serene while the photographers snapped away. Then the Marquesa's next youngest child, María del Mar. handed her mother a tiny box. As the last bit of gift wrapping was torn away, out popped a squeaky, spring-powered mouse, bringing a cry of shocked surprise from the Marquesa and a loud laugh from proud Grandpa Franco...
From Old Joe on down, the Kennedy clan had every reason to be excited. For the youngest of the nine Kennedy children, the chubby little boy who used to wear bangs, had just scored a stunning political triumph. Seeking the Democratic Senate nomination in Massachusetts, he amassed 69% of the vote, humiliated State Attorney General Edward J. (Eddie) McCormack by a margin of 559,251 to 247,366. At 30, and just three years out of law school, he was one of the hottest political properties outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...equal," recalls Rose Kennedy, "but you wonder if the mother and father aren't quite tired when the ninth one comes along. You have to make more of an effort to tell bedtime stories and be interested in swimming matches. There were 17 years between my oldest and youngest child, and I had been telling bedtime stories for 20 years. When you have older brothers and sisters, they're the ones that seem to be more important in a family, and always get the best rooms and the first choice of boats and all those kinds of things...