Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President proposed that every youth take one year's military training when he was graduated from high school or turned 18-whichever came later. During the year he would learn something about all phases of the armed services and all weapons; afterward he would become part of a "general reserve" made up of all male citizens who have been trained in warfare. Six years later he would go into a "secondary reserve"-i.e., men less likely to be called immediately in case of emergency...
Just where is the dividing line between youth and middle age? In TIME [Sept. 17], Artist Artzybasheff was described as middle-aged (46) while Druggist Ruskin was said to be young (42). Perhaps such a decision largely depends upon the age of the author...
...that was nearly 20 years ago. Bad years had come-years of poor crops, high taxes, heavy cares about his own growing household. As youth and man Liu knew only the cloth sandals of his Szechwan neighbors...
...Tito had a measure of popular support, largely in rural areas and among Yugoslav youth. Unlike an unalloyed police state, the regime not only permitted but deviously encouraged a certain opposition. Milan Grol's critical new weekly, Demokratija, allotted newsprint despite the paper shortage, was a sellout. Said he: "Now I have both the people I want and those I don't want. Every malcontent in Yugoslavia is on my side." The result perhaps explained why Grol was allowed to operate...
...soon as the cast is thinned down to working consistency, three expert craftsmen-Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Roland Young, as splendid old scoundrels-are given a chance to peer, leer and sneer it up for all they are worth. With Louis Hayward and June Duprez to add youth & beauty, the last five survivors manage to make a mildly interesting stretch run for the finish...