Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to the Harvard group, 38 other clubs from around New England took part in the A.A.U. sanctioned meet. Many of these were YMCA and youth association teams, as the majority of the swimmers were under eight years...
...ticket. Harrison J. Goldin had first run for controller four years before. "Vote for Harrison J. Goldin," his shopping bags in 1969 recommended. "He's a young dynamo." Goldin did not use this slogan in 1973. Maybe he thought his performance in '69 showed that voters don't like youth. In the year of the energy crisis, maybe he was afraid someone might take him at his word and plug him in. Goldin did his best to exude energy during his inaugural address, though, punching the air as though he hoped to grow up to be Muhammad Ali and setting...
...like to talk about divine retribution. But first, a little background information about my youth in Birmingham, Ala. When I was a sophomore at Mountain Brook High School (they name everything after Nature down there--the cross town rival was Fairfield, then there was Shade Valley--you get the picture), this classmate of mine named Charlie M. Christmas (yes, the M does indeed stand for Merry) became the local legend. Charlie moved to Birmingham at the beginning of tenth grade from what all my classmates called a hick town. Now the usual reaction would have been to ostracize old Charlie...
...Novelist E.M. Forster felicitously phrased it. But to China's propagandists, Beethoven, along with Schubert and Mozart, was just tinkling out a tune on that dreary old capitalist cash register. "There are some people who to this day are still uncritically introducing these things to our youth," huffed Peking's People's Daily last week. "If we go on like this, where will our young people...
...first Ali-Frazier fight was everything it was billed to be. This one is not likely to measure up as well. Since the last contest, both fighters have shown distinct signs of slippage. Ali has lost the zip of his youth, if we are to judge from his two lackluster performances against Norton, and Frazier was pathetically outgunned against Foreman...