Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis when the Allies take over. Others have been given identity cards taken from ordinary Germans killed in air raids, and from 30,000 people associated with the old Weimar Republic who were recently purged. Thus equipped, the chosen Nazis can merge into the general population without detection. Hitler Youth are being trained in underground techniques in three schools known as Ordensburgen, and in a postgraduate institution called the Führer Schule, at Chiem See in Bavaria. The guerrilla army already numbers more than 500,000; the "general staff" has been picked...
Unknown Ingredient. But what of the top Nazis who cannot hide? With a compact army of young SS and Hitler Youth fanatics, they will retreat, behind a loyal rearguard cover of Volksgrenadiere and Volksstürmer, to the Alpine massif which reaches from southern Bavaria across western Austria to northern Italy. There immense stores of food and munitions are being laid down in prepared fortifications. If the retreat is a success, such an army might hold out for years...
...Youth. The man who (with Lenin) embodied this historic force was born (1879) in a small village near Tiflis in Georgia. For the new age, his family status was equivalent to a patent of nobility: Stalin's father was a semiliterate shoemaker who had been a peasant. Georgia is one of Asia's few Christian countries ("I too am an Asiatic," Stalin greeted the Japanese Foreign Minister in 1941). So Stalin went to a Jesuit seminary to become a priest. But he soon left. At an age (15) when Winston Churchill was at Harrow and Franklin Roosevelt...
Vicki Baum, author of glossy, sexy novels about fashionable internationals (Grand Hotel), denounced her newest, Once in Vienna, as her first attempt, written at the age of 15: ". . . I never authorized the publication . . . or the title of this adolescent, utterly dated and ridiculous sin of my early youth...
Each clone has family characteristics shared by all members, and a life cycle much like that of a mammal. In a young clone, cells multiply rapidly but are unable to conjugate. Following youth comes an adolescent period of slight conjugal activity and less multiplication. At maturity, sexual reactions are strongly marked and the individuals conjugate with abandon, until at last a period of decline sets in, leading eventually to death. Frequently, in such an old clone, doughty individuals who attempt conjugation expire...