Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine most fetching and effective Queens and Presidents' wives, none was born to the role. The richest was a souless Paris architecture student when she met her royal husband, the youngest a none too efficient stenographer. Only three come of wealthy families. One Queen was born a princess; one princess had been a movie queen. One President's wife is d escended from the Spanish conquistadors, another from African warriors...
Howe used little restraint in expressing disapproval of the youngest Kennedy's political ambitions. He called him "a bumptious newcomer" in the four-page letter that was mailed to approximately 4,500 Professors, associates, and assistant Professor at every major institution in the state Tuesday night...
Signed out of high school at the age of 18, Kaline was a regular at 19. In his second full season, he became at 20 the youngest man ever to win the American League batting championship...
...successful, he said, "you have to walk out on a limb to the far end-for that's where the fruit is. If it breaks, you learn how far to go next time." Another top-ten award winner that year was Tennessee's Frank Clement, then the youngest state Governor in the U.S., later famous in a way for his florid keynote speech ("How long, O how long?") at the 1956 Democratic Convention. With many similarities of temperament and style, Clement and Estes became fast friends...
Whether he won at Moscow or not, Ogdon's principal at the Royal Manchester College of Music was sure he was bound to "make an international impression very soon." Enrolled at seven as the youngest student in Manchester's history (usual age: 16), he progressed at a "simply staggering" rate for four years, then, amazingly, chucked the whole business for five years while he went back to his academic studies. He had an excellent but not widespread reputation when he decided to tackle Moscow. Before the week was out, the invitations from symphony orchestras were already beginning...