Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON -- More than 3,000 delegates to the Citizenship Institute, of the American Youth Congress cheered vigorously today when the AYC's executive secretary, Miss Francis Williams, defended refusal of the Congress to expell Communist organizations...
When Huw Morgan begins his story he is close onto 60, slag heaps have crept close against the house his youth was spent in, and he is about to leave forever his native valley in Wales. Within a page he has sunk back more than 50 years deep into glassily clear reverie, into a time when the valley and life in it were beautiful...
When the A. I. L. was formed in October with large chapters at Princeton and M. I. T. as well as at Harvard, it was "dedicated to the purpose of consolidating the determination of American youth to keep out of the European war." Promptly League leaders sought to enlist a huge membership which could in times of crisis be converted into an effective pressure group...
...attack. Odets has taken in a far larger scope; his newest play concerns the struggle of the individual with a world that is constantly oppressive. Exuberant and brash, it criticizes the contemporary "wasteland" and glorifies a life in which human nature runs free. For Odets the answer lies in youth with its comic overtones and serious ideals. It is a play tempered with bitterness but full of hope...
During the question period, the first lady expressed approval of the National Youth Administration. In her opinion, the scope and power of this organization should be greatly enlarged, since it is now only able to provide for less than one-sixth of the unemployed under 25 years...