Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more had been added to her list: a youth suspected of robbing parked couples, and a sailor who had tried to strong-arm her in a public park, when she was walking her beat. Otherwise, Alice McCarthy's life had taken on a fairly sedate pattern in her middle age. She lived alone in a South Side apartment, went to the opera, studied French and Italian and went to Mass on Sundays. "I like all the finer things of life," she said...
...popular approval, Ohio's Senator Bob Taft last week declared he would fight "conscription . . . to the bitter end." U.M.T., said Taft, was wasteful and obsolete. "Conscription was no insurance of victory in France, Italy, or Germany." It would improve neither the morals, discipline, nor health of U.S. youth. "The Army wants boys for twelve months consecutively because it wants to change their habits of thought, to make them soldiers, if you please, for the rest of their lives." It was unAmerican. "Militarism has always led to war, not to peace. . . . We are indeed bankrupt of ideas if we cannot...
...World Scout Jamboree (30,000 Boy Scouts are scheduled to encamp on the meadows at Moisson, northwest of Paris, in mid-August). The $956,000 allocated for the meeting, said Marty, could better be spent for recreation centers. "Existentialists" with reactionary backing, he added, were trying to demoralize French youth...
...Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" he asked. "I studied in Germany, 1930 to 1934. We base our instruction on the German youth movement, because the Germans are the only people who really know how to organize young...
...rimmed glasses, General Li outlined his movement. "We Koreans have behind us 4,000 years of good history. The present situation is confused only because the people have forgotten their heritage. Our nation must have the strength to prevent invasion by another nation and we must build up our youth to this...