Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later that year, an SS man named Gustav Sirsch and his wife entered the story. Childless, they went to the SS orphanage, asked to adopt a boy. They were offered a dark-haired, blue-eyed youngster of two whom they liked at once. The people at the orphanage said he was the son of German parents. It was, in fact, Ivan...
...cover on his typewriter. One side of The Natural is broad farce, in which Novelist Malamud kids the legends of baseball prowess. The other side of Roy's story is pitched to the theme of American tragedy. He had come up to the leagues once before as a youngster, only to be shot by a madwoman in a Chicago hotel the night before he was to report. Now, 15 years later, he knows his second-chance success must come soon...
...freight car and set out for the promised land. At a Quaker church party, his daughter Hannah met Francis Anthony Nixon, who had also come out from the Middle West. She married him two years later. Their second son, Dick, worked in the lemon grove as a youngster, chopping weeds and caring for the trees. The grove itself turned out to be a lemon. The family moved to Whittier and set up Nixon's Market, a general store and filling station, which is still going strong today. (Nixon's parents, still hale & hearty, have left the store...
Childhood & Education: A king at three, Feisal had a brief fling at toys and tanks, lollipops, Flash Gordon movie serials and Superman comics before growing into a solemn-faced, rather lonely youngster, stuffed full of English, Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, French and dynastic history. At 14, donned his father's old school tie and went off to Harrow (Winston Churchill's school). Got along with teachers & classmates, showed no signs of the anti-British feelings his father developed there after three Harrowing years...
...dope), the inmates are put in observation wards and taken off the drug. If they can be withdrawn from drugs at once ("cold turkey"), so much the better; if their withdrawal symptoms are too severe for that, they are tapered off. No ward has more than four beds. Each youngster will clean up his own room and do his personal laundry. Many hours a day are set aside for interviews with psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. There are first-class facilities for home economics and shop crafts, as well as for sports, movies and TV. After Labor Day, Riverside will...