Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jones and Maria have drawn up a chart for easy reference, using Maria's designations: White the married, who liked lamb and pork, but no shrimp; White the father of Cricket (Frank White III), who liked fruits, eggs, bacon and pastries; and White the criança (youngster), who refused milk and potatoes for fear of becoming White the fat. Now, when the name of Senhor White comes up, Maria goes to the kitchen, consults the chart and points out which one she means...
When Amos Alonzo Stagg first started to coach football at the University of Chicago, not one of the school's buildings had been finished. Jim Corbett had just won the heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan; Knute Rockne was a four-year-old youngster in Norway; and it was eight years before the founding of baseball's American League. At Chicago only 13 men turned up for football practice, so Coach Stagg, a Walter Camp All-America end at Yale (class of '88), joined the fun and played on the team himself...
...farm at Myrtle Point. Ore. last week, 85-year-old Theodore Milton ("Tex") Stover got to reminiscing about one of his nephews, a youngster named Dwight Eisenhower, whom he last saw when Ike was nine. "That boy kinda worried his mother," said Uncle Tex. "We used to talk about that boy-thought he might become a criminal ... he was such a fun-loving youngster. He used to saw the backs off the kitchen chairs, but we could never see him do it." Stover said he was proud of the boy today, but still planned to vote as he always...
...given his third start, against Philadelphia. He won again, 5-0, allowing but five hits. It was his fifth straight victory, over five different teams. In 43⅓ innings, brash Billy Loes has allowed only three earned runs, for a remarkable earned-run average of .063. Admittedly a jittery youngster, Loes thinks singlemindedness is the key to his effectiveness: "The only time I'm not nervous is when I'm pitching. When I'm out there I only think about one thing, the pitch I'm going to throw this...
Theologically, Morse is "an unrepentant liberal" ("I still believe in the improvability of human nature"). Thirty-nine years ago, a youngster on the staff of the church's national headquarters, he lost his post because the General Assembly thought his department's rural church work was "too progressive," but the following year he was back...