Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Race. Rice seldom sets the pace. Neither does Hagg. But after the first lap of the big race, lean Gunder decided to take the lead. A youngster named Wilt spurted past Hagg once, passed him again. But Hagg refused to be annoyed. With effortless ease he glided over the cinders, his fringe of long hair flapping, his voluminous shorts billowing like a spinnaker...
...Prince has been married twice, first to Margaret, daughter of Britain's Duke of Connaught and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who bore him four sons and a daughter. The eldest son and heir apparent to the throne is Prince Gustaf Adolf, a mere youngster of 37 with three charming daughters, Margaretha, Birgitta and Désirée.* The daughter, Ingrid, is married to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The second son, Sigvard, married a commoner. The other two sons, Bertil and Carl Johan, are with the Swedish Navy and Army...
...family qualifies him under Rule 4. His wife, who was his college sweetheart, is handsome, alert, good-humored. She dresses smartly without inspiring envy, dabbles at painting and playing the piano, works earnestly as nurse's-aide chairman. Their twelve-year-old son is a personable youngster who yearns to be a trapper...
...Value of Time. Wormwood, a youngster full of a youngster's appetites, is beside himself with joy as the war intensifies. His uncle, snarling at "your readiness to forget the main point in your immediate enjoyment of human suffering," warns him: "I sometimes wonder if you young fiends ... are not in some danger of becoming infected by the sentiments and values of the humans among whom you work. They, of course, do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them...
...chance of growing up. Crack-voiced Henry Aldrich has been about 16 years old now for the last four years. His protracted adolescence earns his creator (Playwright Clifford Goldsmith) radio's fattest writing fee ($3,000 for one show a week). Goldsmith is hardly likely to let the youngster get any older before his contract expires...