Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Herbert Morrison wore his red tie, and lady Laborites turned up at the House of Commons in their nattiest scarlet dresses. The News Chronicle's Columnist Ian Mackay was in a reminiscent mood. "May Day," he wrote of his youth, "to my eager young mind, was the great annual festival of freedom, when the quenchless spirit of the common man was continually refreshed and rededicated to the endless quest of love and friendship, liberty and peace among all the peoples of the world. How many of us even dreamed, as we marched starry-eyed behind the flags . . . towards...
...Jefe did little of the talking. There was no need to discuss the election; it was already rigged, with all the ruthless efficiency of the most thorough dictatorship in the Hemisphere. El Jefe cast a glance at the obelisk and its inscription: "I have put the ambitions of my youth and the brilliance of my career at the service of my country." Beyond such pap, inscribed far & wide on monuments through the Republic, he had no reason to worry about high-sounding ideologies. The dictator and President of the Dominican Republic has no ideology: he is no Fascist...
...like Durocher, unfortunately, that our youth look for ideals-and what do they...
...world's top architects, busy with clay and sketch pads, clustered last week in a grey-walled conference room. They were there to design a home for the U.N. The youngest of them, a 39-year-old Brazilian named Oscar Niemeyer, had no reason to apologize for his youth, because he had experience beyond his years. While war had immobilized most of the world's architects, Niemeyer and Brazil had been building...
...underfed, malarial peasants flocked to his door. In his youth he had taken a medical degree and still knew more about medicine than the aged, bored, local physician and the two half-educated druggist-sisters who filled prescriptions out of any old mixture of powders that happened to be in stock. Soon Levi had a large medical practice...