Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dory like a steam engine," the youth reported. "I went right up out of the boat and I came down on his flat, slippery hump." The young lobsterman swore he dug his fingers into the whale's hide and rode him like a horse. "Then," he said, "the whale sounded. That was my chance, and I took it-I abandoned him to starboard and started swimming...
...Irgunists to leave Israel's army. "If we go down," shrilled Beigin, "we will see to it that the state of Israel sinks with us! If I am killed, the fury of my soldiers will know no bounds . . . They will avenge me, and I fear that the youth of Israel will be wiped out in a single night...
Irgunist Beigin had embraced the philosophy of violence years ago as a law student in Poland, there had joined the youth organization of the Zionist Revisionists. In World War II the Russians arrested him as an "antisocial element" in Poland, exiled him to hard labor in Siberia, later released him to join the Polish army. When his unit reached Palestine, Beigin deserted and went underground with the Irgun. The British put a price of ?2,000 on his head...
...youth," Father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain, But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again...
...Quakers established women as the spiritual equals of men. The Puritan conception of companionship and "tender respectiveness" set a new standard for Christian marriage. Wrote William Penn to his wife, as he was about to depart for Pennsylvania: "My dear wife, remember thou wast the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life; the most beloved, as well as the most worthy of all my earthly comforts . . . God knows, and thou knowest it, I can say it was a match of Providence's making...