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Word: youngsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marty's father would not work-Mrs. Daniels supported the family as a $46-a-week bookbinding machine operator. But Marty's father liked to drive Marty's jalopy, and if he went out at night and found it short of gas, he would wake the youngster and beat him for not keeping a full tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Bad Seed | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...pitcher that he was going to start against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Gangling (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) Max Von McDaniel, duly warmed up, had little cause to get nervous until the sixth inning, when the bases suddenly got full of scampering Dodgers and none were out. But the youngster forced Old Pro Elmer Valo, 36, to bounce back to the box, calmly threw home to start a run-nipping double play, and then got Outfielder Gino Cimoli to ground out on an inside fast ball to end the inning. When he finished his two-hit victory last week (final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Me & Von | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...town girl; while one yelled obscenities, the rest of the pack twirled waist chains menacingly to discourage interference. Three of Angels Camp's four bars shut down; merchants decided to close early. Then came action. Flashing down the Main Street hill with muffler throbbing, a long-haired youngster wheeled artfully through a knot of idlers, snatched a can of beer on the fly. Hundreds of daredevils kicked their starters, ready to meet his challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Wild Ones | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

When Tom Spies was a rawboned youngster in the cotton, corn and cattle country of northeast Texas' Red River valley, there was enough food (Tom grew to burly quarterback build), but the average farm diet was deadly monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins & the Three Ms | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Choice of Illness. A mother's anxieties about various aspects of her child's bodily functions may play an important part in the youngster's unconscious "choice" of psychosomatic illness, said Dr. George J. Mohr of Los Angeles' Mount Sinai Hospital. Some mothers nag about feeding or bowel movements; in such a setting the child may develop ulcerative colitis. If mother worries every time baby wheezes, he may "choose" asthma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mind over Matter | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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