Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...character in the story is ten-year-old Emily Thornton (well played by eleven-year-old Abby Bonime), a secretive, imaginative youngster capable-with no villainous intentions-of both coldblooded treachery and hysterical murder...
...youngster . . . doesn't know what he is saying . . . [but] knows it creates a stir. . . . If the adult is shocked and sharply forbids . . . the child will use the phrase over and over . . . the teacher [should] let the obnoxious expression go the first few times. . . . Often . . . it will wear itself out. . . . If you correct a child and he answers, 'My father says that' . . . you must . . . [avoid] discrediting his home. . . . It must be pointed out. . . that, although those words may be used at home, [they] cannot be . . . at school...
...Fish. At 7:15 the lookout reported planes. Berlin started back toward the cockpit; it was already too late. The only thing he could do was lie down, so he stretched out on deck and calmly gave an order: "All right, general quarters." The port gunner, a blond youngster named Richard Dudziak, started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball on the wings...
...Among Civil War youngster Generals: Jackson, 37; Stuart, 28; Pickett, 37; Custer, 23; Forrest, 41; Sheridan, 31. At Appomattox, Grant...
...Veterans of Foreign Wars, convening at Manhattan's Commodore Hotel last week, had the proud, britches-busting look of a youngster who has just discovered he is growing...