Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whitey" McNair was 58 when war came, but he was slim and fit and his mind was as flexible as a youngster's. Marshall called him "the brains of the Army." There was no new trick in war, whether British, German, Russian or improvised American that he was not ready to try, and to use if it were proved...
...black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon garrotes made from stolen glider towropes...
...evening his khaki staff car, marked with the four red stars, rolled across the sleeping countryside. At busy, nervous dromes the General chatted with the air soldiers. He looked for a paratrooper from Kansas. He joked with one youngster about his haircut. He asked a boy who had been a Dakota farmer how much wheat he had grown per acre...
...author of the Atlantic's series is Charles L. Webster's son, Mark Twain's grandnephew, corncob-pipe-smoking Samuel (for Clemens) Charles (for his father) Webster of Manhattan. His helper was his tiny, chipper, 91-year-old mother, Sam Clemens' niece and his favorite youngster during his Mississippi pilot days. Mrs. Webster saved the 500-odd letters through the years -literally in an attic trunk...
Hero Youree was sentenced to be cashiered as an example to youngster airmen who are tempted to reckless flying. He was convicted at his station at the Ardmore, Okla. Army airfield of flying too close to a Braniff airliner and scaring the daylights out of its 21 passengers...