Word: youths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...instructed to call the police on their radios if they spot any suspicious persons or anything that seems out of the ordinary. In May a member of the student security patrol saw someone carrying things from a dorm and contacted police. As a result a local youth was arrested and several hundred dollars' worth of stereo equipment was recovered...
...mpora, whom Argentines have nicknamed "el Tío" (Uncle), is largely responsible for the confrontation. He made a fumbling attempt to laud right wing montonero (meaning bushfighter) guerrillas as a sort of Peronist resistance vanguard, calling them "a marvelous youth movement which knew how to meet violence with violence." Thus he managed in his inaugural speech to leave the impression that the terrorist acts of the ERP were justified...
...people in these photographs. Things also seem to be equally demanding. "I bought the Doughboy pool for David and the kids, and now no one wants to take the responsibility for cleaning it," one father remarks mournfully as he scoops debris from the large plastic tank. Neatness counts. A youth, balancing in the boughs of a scrawny tree, is picking dead leaves. "My dad thinks it's a good idea to take all the leaves off the trees and rake up the yard. I think he's crazy...
Baseball powerhouses are supposed to be built in the South and West where weather and great interest in the sport combine to put thousands of kids into youth leagues from the age of seven on. So it is with some surprise that the baseball "experts" from warmer climates are viewing Harvard's amazing charge to a 35-3 record and a berth in the NCAA College World Series to be played in Omaha this week...
...basic point of Davis's talk was that the youth movement that he had worked so hard in throughout the sixties was, quite simply, dead. And Maharaj Ji was the only way left to personal salvation and a better world. It was a message that deeply stung the radical half of the audience. Embittered by Davis's exit from activism, they shouted pointed references at him from the back of the hall--allusions to other bad receptions on the tour...