Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pink-Cheeked Apollo." In a sense Chicago-born Arthur Radford was bigger than his immediate job even when, as a Navy-struck youngster at an Annapolis prep school, he used to cut morning classes, rent a boat and head across the Severn to watch such naval-aviation pioneers as Jack Towers and Albert C. Read in their weird helmets and goggles, maneuvering Curtiss pushers through the bright Maryland sky. At the Naval Academy Arthur did well in the famous class of 1916 that produced more than 40 admirals and made such a hit at Academy hops that his class Lucky...
Ulbricht dared not crack down too hard on the students. Instead, he pinned the rap on Wolfgang Harich, charging that the young teacher had acted under the influence of "reactionaries" in Hungary and Poland. A handsome, soft-looking youngster in Berlin's World War II "high society," Harich had studied philosophy, turned Buddhist under the influence of Japanese embassy friends, and later, when the draft caught up with him, deserted the German army. A friendly general saved him from being shot, and he turned Roman Catholic. After the Russians came, he switched to Marxism, was made lecturer in historical...
...down some of the boys as they dived to earth. One youth's left leg was almost severed above the knee. He was saved from bleeding to death when a quick-thinking teacher made a tourniquet from a rag and a chunk of the fallen metal. Another youngster's abdomen was ripped open by a piece of flying metal. When the debris settled and the screams were stilled, three boys were dead or dying, 78 others hurt. Dead also: the airliner's four-man crew and Scorpion Pilot Owen. Scorpion Radarman Adams parachuted out, landed badly burned...
...rescued from an upstairs room to come down to see the ceremony). Another Eisenhower guest was retired Navy Captain E. E. ("Swede") Hazlett, one of Ike's good friends from the early days back in Abilene, who once had waxed long and enthusiastically to a happy-go-lucky youngster named Ike about the delights of a service career. ("Calm, frank, laconic and sensible," Swede Hazlett once termed Ike, "and not in the least affected by being the school hero...
...moves, finally, to his death, like a Shakespearean tragic hero's on the swords of conspirators. Bloody feuds had broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster. There were twenty against Pizarro and blows rained upon him. His arm weakened. A final thrust, and the Marquis crumpled, his throat cut. He cried out his confession and then, unable to speak more, dipped a hand in his own blood and traced a great cross on the floor ..." A contemporary chronicler wrote...