Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army represents the honor and manly virtues of the country. Compulsory military service will augment chances in life for the youth. The urgency of making our merchant and naval marines respectable units has made it necessary for us to create their respective departments into a State Ministry. With this we shall be able to respond better to the responsibility of maintaining intact the sovereignty of our nation...
...believe it will "promote the happiness and well-beings" of the American people if we blindly run the risk of disaster. With the example of the European democracies before us, will our educated youth continue to keep their heads in the sand? Even the ostrich doesn't do that...
...America, and sundry other similar experiments. It is in the type of enrollees that the principal difference occurs. The government organizations consist almost exclusively of young people who would otherwise be entirely on the rocks; the private camps have sought to promote "trans-class associations," through which college youth and working-class youth can come to know each other and to have a more real friendship, a deeper awareness of mutual needs and interests. The private camps, too, have tended to be more democratically organized and led, rather than arranged along military lines...
...another occasion a youth appeared who said: "I am going to kill a man." While the young man babbled about doing something to the husband of his cutie, Mr. Anthony passed a note to his announcer suggesting that the client's coat be searched. In it was found a foot-long jack handle-"a fine instrument for murder," as Mr. Anthony now points out. From this distraught juvenile, Mr. Anthony won a promise not to do anything until the next day. By that time Mr. Anthony had a psychiatrist ready, who subsequently worked a cure...
...cocked at their constituents. They seldom hear much. Aside from a noisy minority of taxpayers, patriots and zealous parents, most citizens take their schools for granted, do little kibitzing. But last week, in a Gallup poll arranged by the American Council on Education and its subsidiary, the American Youth Commission, the U. S. people told what they thought about their schools. Some findings...