Word: youthe
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Critics will point to Gore's youth and to his "patrician background" as making him unfit to be president. Yet "patrician backgrounds" hardly affected the ability of FDR and JFK to govern on behalf of the less fortunate members of our society. Those who bring up Gore's age do so simply because they have nothing more substantial to raise against him, since, at 39, he already possesses 11 years of Congressional experience and a substantive legislative record...
...prime, rock 'n' roll was an active rebellion, a reaction to the staid, self-imposed limitations of an earlier era. It was youth made manifest. But neither youth nor rebellion can be sustained forever, the only fertile soil for revolution is oppression, and after the 30 permissive years of the rock 'n' roll era, the soil has been leached of grounds for uprising; only lame and stunted weeds can sprout in the once-rich humus...
...operations on his face, singing "I'm looking at the man in the mirror/...I'm gonna make a change.." completely seriously. Not only is Michael Jackson a semi-human entity who makes the headlines of the Weekly World News seem downright normal; he is a hero for the youth of America. Think about it. A hero for the children of our country. The man who sleeps in an oxygen tent with monkey and the carcass of the Elephant...
...Kluncker grew older, Nazi ideology came closer to home and, and he became an opponent of the government. Kluncker says he did not accept Nazi ideology and disliked the marching exercises required of all youth in the Third Reich...
...momentary thaw (one of Calgary's snow-eating chinooks) melted the town three days before fledgling Figure Skater Robyn Perry got up on her toes to reach the Olympic cauldron. Two years short of the competitors' minimum age, the local whiz kid represented youth's considerable promise; also, bravery. A week earlier, before the thermometer shot from 11 degrees below to 45 degrees and back to 21 degrees again, the Olympic torch blew up spectacularly. Engineers called it a "minor malfunction," but Perry may have wished for a longer handle...