Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the side of the rusted trunk. Mullins ditched the Dodge, flagged down another motorist, pistol-whipped him and took his car. Minutes later Mullins appeared at a restaurant, where he assaulted a woman and ran off with her purse. At a nearby street corner he picked up a young woman, later described by police as a prostitute, and raped her in a park. When a passer-by surprised him, Mullins retreated to the car with his victim; both were nude. Speeding off, he rammed a car. The woman ran for safety; Mullins, pausing only to pull on his underwear...
...were a few initial victories, but the mounted, mobile Boers with their magazine-loading Mausers and their devastating "Long Tom" artillery soon drove the British forces into siege positions at Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking. The lessons of preparedness were not lost on one of the Boers' early captives: young War Correspondent Winston Churchill...
...better position than the strong or successful to understand the real condition of life: that it is vulnerable to mysterious sudden changes, controlled by powers that the subject does not understand. Imaginative arrangements must be made, all of them temporary. "Gabriel at that time," Gallant writes about a young refugee in France, "still imagined that everyone's life must be about the same, something like a half-worked crossword puzzle...
...Bicentennial was educational television's $6.7 million, 13-part series, The Adams Chronicles, a generational saga of early America's most distinguished family. From the patriarchal John and the vigorous John Quincy, viewers could follow the thinning of bloodlines and the refining of sensibilities. In Part 12, young Henry Adams (1838-1918) meets his future wife Clover Hooper at the Harvard Library. "Plato! In the original!" exclaims Henry as he glimpses the spine of Clover's book. "Well," she replies, "I don't like translations...
Faust, 44, a gravel-voiced six-footer, is second-generation football. His father, Gerard Sr., now 72, coached for 20 years in Dayton, where young Jerry was an all-state quarterback. After starring at the University of Dayton, Faust joined local Chaminade High as a backfield coach. Hired in 1960 by Moeller to start a freshman football team, Faust first fielded a varsity in 1963, and the Fighting Crusaders dynasty was born...