Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Give-Away Smile. When a child is questioned at a counseling session, says Dr. Dreikurs, it is easy to tell the moment when his inner purpose is revealed to the youngster. There comes an odd, sudden smile or some other distinctive facial expression, often so dramatic that newcomers to the parent group can spot it. It is remarkable, too, how young a child can give the needed responses to questioning...
...case, the conversion from folk to pop comes quite easily to him. It is much the same as the process of "composing" one of his songs in the first place: all of them come from memories of the songs he heard as a youngster in the Cape Colony, and he and Miranda change them to suit themselves. "We are not the kind of folk singers who try to present the songs the way they were originally sung. We try to preserve the flavor, and then sing them the way we want to sing them...
Babe Didrikson was the sixth of seven children born to Ole Didrikson, a Norwegian ship's carpenter who sailed 19 times around the Horn before settling down in Port Arthur, Texas. A scrawny youngster, she rebelled against femininity; women were "sissies who wore girdles, bras and that junk." Instead of wasting time with dolls, Mildred Ella Didrikson exercised on a backyard weight-lifting machine built of broomsticks and her mother's flatirons. She beat boys at mumblety-peg, whizzed past them in foot races and razzle-dazzled them in basketball. Still in her teens, she burst into...
...youngster, George was popular, bright and unspoiled-even though he got his first pony when he was only eight. At Saginaw High School he got top grades and was twice president of his class. He played some tennis, and was a steady ground-gaining halfback on the 1908 Saginaw championship football team. At the University of Michigan he took three semesters of engineering, then switched to law and graduated (1912) into a job in his father's firm...
...Clown (MGM) is a remake of the 1931 success, The Champ, in which Wallace Beery played a broken-down prizefighter and Jackie Cooper his worshipful young son. In this version, Red Skelton plays a broken-down funnyman with Tim Considine as the youngster...