Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youngster grew up in a rugged, outdoor life, its setting the lovely, wooded country of rolling hills known in Kentucky as the "Pennyr'y'l." "I went barefooted," Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has written, ''hunted, trapped, fished, swam, canoed, raised chickens, fought roosters, rode five miles daily for the mail, trained dogs, did odd farm jobs, learned not to eat green persimmons and occasionally walked eight miles to Munfordville to broaden my horizon by seeing the train come in, learning the fine points of horse trading or listening to learned legal and political discussion on County...
Flight to Panay. The son of a farmer-schoolteacher in Iloilo, Confesor came to the U.S. as a youngster, worked his way through three years at the University of California. Later he graduated from the University of Chicago, where he majored in municipal government and economics. He was in Manila, as chief of the National Cooperatives Association and also gover nor of Iloilo, when the Japs arrived, got away to Panay in a small sailboat. When he struck out for the hills, he took with him his wife and three children...
Born in Turkey of Greek parents, Dr. Kyrides came to the U.S. as a youngster, worked his way through the University of Michigan, has devoted himself to two great passions. The other one is ballroom dancing, at which he proved so ardent and proficient a student that he was invited to become a professional. A shyly affectionate man, he often turns up in the laboratory with chocolate bars for his assistants. Sometimes, walking in the street with a friend, he darts into a store, emerges with a bag of peanuts and silently hands it to his companion...
This is not the expression of an inexperienced youngster, but of a man, one who is not given ordinarily to vehemence of expression-one who is well educated and balanced in personality-and he is undoubtedly expressing the opinion of his associates as well...
...compulsory military training, a large county was heard from last week. Representatives of some 600 colleges convened at Atlantic City (Association of American Colleges), heard an urgent plea for action from General Marshall, pondered, debated, then voted (210-to-35) that: 1) they are perfectly willing for every U.S. youngster to be conscripted for a year of Army training if they are convinced that it is necessary; 2) they are still far from convinced.† Their cautious arguments for delay: 1) it is too soon to say what our military needs will be; 2) alternate plans have not been sufficiently...