Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When both parents and students feel that education is making substantial contributions to the lives of American youth, the problems of the schools will be solved. It is hard to convince parents that they ought to pay taxes to support an absurd institution -just as hard as it is to convince students that they ought to behave sensibly while there...
Back in 1954 in a little Syrian town called Kessab, another youth and I set the world record of games played for one set (normally a set is three to five games). We played a 1,000-game set, which lasted 15 days with six to eight hours off a day for eating and sleeping...
...white man grabbed him by the arm, and a smaller black man pushed him into a waiting car driven by a middle-aged white woman. "Don't you know you are possessed by demons?" the woman said, according to Voll. The youth screamed for help so persistently that the police intervened and freed him, unhurt except for a dislocated finger...
...attempts on his part to "rescue" her, says: "I can't come out and say they are affiliated with any known Communist organization, but their methods, teachings and way of life would indicate a Communist organization in some form. They follow that pattern of mindcontrol and taking over youth. They talk about how they are going to destroy capitalistic society, organized churches, the school system and the family structure. They say they're going to destroy everything we stand...
James Graham, a fourth East Cambridge youth who was at the scene of the alleged assault, said yesterday that DeLuca got out of his car to argue with the youths and punched one of them after the youth spat at him. "We would have stopped the fight right away, except that DeLuca kept trying to pull Bergan into his car," Graham said...