Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave youth something more toughly tangled than woodsy trails to worry about. CCC camps recently dropped to 400, enrollment to 80,000 boys. But even that was 400 camps too many for some Congressmen. CCC boys, they pointed out, now came mainly from rural districts where they were badly needed...
...supply bill last week, economy-minded committeemen slashed $75,818,000 which would have kept CCC going another year. For good measure they gouged some $100,000,000 out of an appropriation for the National Youth Administration, left NYA only some $50,000,000 to carry on its defense-worker training. NYA is somebody else's pet: Mrs. Roosevelt...
...from German Protestantism. Unlike surviving fragments of the Orthodox Church, the Baptists, a young sect, had no social standing in Tsarist Russia, are consequently not held accountable for Tsarist infamy. According to Russian Theologian George P. Fedotov, Visiting Fellow at Yale, they have made a great appeal to Communist youth, "who have a deep spiritual thirst...
...smooth-working young sneak thief made a serious mistake by picking Lowell House, "famous for its brains and bells," as his victim. The Cambridge youth, known only as "Bob White" for whom he asked when he found someone in a room, stole cameras, radios, and money from a number of Bellboys...
Possibly the most moving passages in The Song of Bernadette give account of the conversion of Werfel's archskeptic, one Hyacinthe de Lafite, a neighborhood patrician. In his youth, an arrogant atheist" individualist-poet, he had not bothered even to visit the newborn, crowded shrine. But now in his old age he confronts in Lourdes's hospital the full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille...