Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip last summer-driving a tank at Willow Run, sitting on the Dodgers' bench, collecting cowboy hats-Feisal showed himself an alert, likable, mechanically inclined youngster, not brilliant, but competent and confident...
...children by removing physical allergens, e.g., dust and pollens, from their environment, Dr. Peshkin found that he still had 10% who did not get better. And they always got worse when mother was around. The trouble, he decided, was that the mother was unconsciously rejecting the child, and the youngster's anxiety caused changes in his physiological reactions. Eventually the children learned (albeit unconsciously) that they could get loving care by having an asthma attack...
Death & Records. News of another kind was solemnly expected, and it was not long in coming. Two hours after the race began, Frenchman Lucien Descollanges careened off the highway in his Jaguar and his co-driver, Pierre Gilbert Ugnon, was killed. A Fiat hit an Italian youngster, who wandered on to the road, and killed him instantly. Twelve others were injured. Bloody as it was, Mille Miglia hardly compared with when a car plowed into a crowd and killed...
Chicago's Allstate Insurance Co., a Sears, Roebuck subsidiary and third largest of the independents, also chopped its rates. Premiums on cars driven by high-school youths in 44 states will be shaved 15%, provided each youngster completes an auto safety course of 30 classroom hours and six hours behind the wheel (while more than 6,000 of the nation's 25,000 high schools offer such courses, only 350,000 of the 2,000,000 students who come of driving age each year take them...
...vaguely based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories, the picture unreels some foolishly romantic complications in a small Indiana town at the threshold of the Jazz Age. Among those present: a stuffy paterfamilias (Leon Ames), an understanding mother (Rosemary DeCamp), a comic maid (Mary Wickes), an unruly youngster (Billy Gray), a pet turkey named Gregory. With its sleighrides, ice-skating parties and other Technicolored bucolics, By the Light of the Silvery Moon is so relentlessly wholesome that moviegoers may wish for the Dead End kids to drop...