Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble could be traced to President Rios' cousin, counselor and close friend, Interior Minister Raul Morales Beltrami, who would automatically become acting president during the President's absence. Dr. Morales' ambition and aggressive youth (36) had rubbed many of his colleagues the wrong way. Feeling against him mounted over the prospect that he would run the country temporarily...
...eyes of even the most stupid Germans, these eyes have been opened by the terrible blood bath in which Hitler and his confederates are trying to drown all Europe in the name of the freedom of the German nation. Germany's name will remain forever dishonored if German youth does not at last rise up, avenge and destroy its tormentors and help in the building of a new spirit in Europe...
...history was somewhat fruitily evident in his precious titles and subtitles lifted from Francis Thompson, Racine, Leopardi, etc. To Garland of the Garland (credit line: Meleager, in the Greek Anthology), in which a morose young woman in a long white dress sulks on a wall while a garlanded youth wipes his ear with a towel, Stark Young appended a welcome note of explanation: "To the boy the lady seems as beautiful as the magazines. He has been making garlands, and to him she is the garland's very soul." Polyglot as his influences are, most of Young...
...word has gone around the Navy that, at 38, Jimmy Thach has had enough of the beach for a while. He wants to get out to battle, update tactics once again, because he thinks that in battle experience counts for more than youth. (Flatley is 36, O'Hare 28. the Navy's famed dive-bomber Gus Widhelm...
...grand antique sense of spontaneous and unprecedented song. But as a devoted artificer of words and as a distiller of experience, he has always been a poet, and a particularly fine one. Unlike many greater and lesser poets, moreover, he has constantly grown and changed. In his youth he was most notably a satirist; then a mosaic artist of exquisite sensibility, a man who used the perfected expression of past artists as frankly as he used his own, to arrange, fragment by fragment, edge by edge, an image of the desolation of his time (The Waste Land...