Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them scarcely had a chance against Titan, the trim cherry bay colt with the proud Hanover name, who trotted a record-breaking two-minute mile as a two-year-old last year. His driver was a champ too: gum-chewing Brooklyn-bred Harry Pownall, who at 42 is a youngster among sulky drivers...
Because some U.S. fliers went visiting in Essex, England, a chubby 9-year-old with a prodigious gift for piano-playing arrived in Watertown, Mass, last week. The youngster is blind Jimmy Osborne, who never studied music beyond listening to the BBC and to phonograph records. Now he is going to study at the Perkins Institution for the Blind...
...know," said a tall, sandy-haired youngster, "I think this non-fraternization is just plain stupid. What I mean is, it's going against human nature. . . . After all we are supposed to educate these Germans back to be normal citizens, and this way we're just raising a barrier between us and them." "Listen," said the other soldier, "you got the wrong slant. All a soldier wants is a little fun. The order doesn't seem to make sense but I can see some reason for it. ... We've got to teach these Germans that...
...Paris Conservatory, listened thoughtfully. A 14-year-old student was playing a set of piano variations. The recital over, Director Fauré awarded the Conservatory's first piano prize to the fair-haired boy, saying in a voice so soft it could hardly be heard: "This youngster . . . has true musicality . . . he will go far." That...
Last week New York Timesman Meyer Berger told the story: "The amputation cases lay silent . . . in the red glow of the battle light in the ward. Shipboard sounds seemed remote and subdued as the chaplain bent over the fever-flushed youngster. The chaplain said: 'Do you want to pray with...