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Word: youngs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's young epee team showed signs of inexperience in tournament competition as the varsity fencers fell far short of their expectations yesterday in the Eastern Collegiate Fencing Championships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Epee Trio Falls To Inexperience | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

THERE WAS not much talk of good fellowship when the Harvard Young Dems convened last month for general elections. The YD's seemed ready to fold, and the members were looking for scapegoats. As an influence on student politics the club had clearly failed. But several candidates thought it still had a role to play in adult political campaigns throughout Massachusetts...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Revival Politics | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

...There's not been one success for the YD's all year," he said. "No John Lindsay, for example, as the Young Republicans had last spring. There is some energy here and I hope in the next month or two there will be a radical change in what people are doing...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Revival Politics | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

Mentioning "radical change" was ironic, for SDS is Young Dems' most feared rival. Not really hated, but the existence of SDS gives some YD's their sense of mission. The sixty voters who tried to breathe life into the corpse did so because "Harvard needs a moderate voice on campus...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Revival Politics | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

...young Sicilian immigrant and hard-working family man in New York's Little Italy, Don Vito discovered (somewhat to his own surprise) he was "a man of force." The phrase is recurrent and a key to understanding the qualities that distinguish a true captain of business and industry. Don Vito is the sort of man who would undoubtedly grump at such academic non sequiturs as "political science," since the years have taught him there is no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate one's faults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Man's Family | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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