Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announced aim of A. Y. C. (attacked by the Dies Committee, spanked by Mr. Roosevelt, coddled by his wife) is to give Youth a chance to shoot its mouth off, draw attention to its problems. Chief concerns were unemployment, war and peace, civil liberties. Chief distraction was Communism, which has plagued A. Y. C. for long...
...with pleasure, the Führer rolled into Berlin in his special antiaircraft-guarded train, smiled at wildly celebrating crowds. Stepping onto the red-carpeted platform where Nazi bigwigs crowded to welcome him, he listened with frank delight to the metallic clamoring of bells, the roaring Heils of Hitler Youth and Hitler Maidens, the trumpeting blare of a Storm Troopers' brass band...
...woman of type 442 is one of nature's practical jokes. In youth she is generally an active, slender pep girl with the endomorphic 4 concealed. After maturity that component blossoms out and she gets chubby. Sometimes a girl of this type, in her streamlined adolescence, chooses a career as a dancer. It might save years of wasted effort if she could be dissuaded by constitutional diagnosis and prediction of her future dimensions...
...extreme somatotonic is "an active, energetic person . . . addicted to exercise and relatively immune to fatigue. He walks assertively, talks noisily, behaves aggressively. . . ." In youth he looks older than he is. "He is concerned mostly with affairs of the moment and meets his problems with some form of activity...
...American Youth Commission's Howard Y. McClusky: "Without exception the dictators of Europe have risen to power upon the shoulders of bewildered youth. What the youth of America think and do is of supreme importance to all of us. We want them to uphold and strengthen our democracy-but we will have to show them and give them a democracy that works...