Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Game belonged to Maglie. Slaughter reached him for a single and then a brash youngster named Mickey Mantle clouted a two-run homer. Sal was magnificently unconcerned. The two last-minute victories with which he had ensured the Dodgers' pennant weighed heavily on his wrenched back. But he bent his wicked curve over the corners of the plate and he never made the same mistake twice. Slaughter calmly hit him three for five, but Sal struck out ten Yanks, stranded another nine on the bases. Behind him, the Dodgers piled up nine hits (including homers by Robinson...
...Gate. The durable refugee from Canadian coal mines has been a long time on the road to success, and he was slow getting out of the starting gate. Born in England, he was brought to northwestern Canada by his parents when he was a youngster. He went to work as a "grease pig," leading the slow-moving donkeys hauling their loads of coal. Any job under the sun would have been better, and young Johnny made a long reach for light and air. At 15, he began to pick up small change riding "Roman" style at the "bull rings" around...
During the Indo-Chinese war, when the countryside was invaded by African troops and by a Foreign Legion containing more Germans than French, the garrison towns were filled with a polychromic and polyglot collection of youngsters born of every shade of father. The Eurasian population quadrupled, and a new word had to be coined: Africasians. Many girls with catholic tastes produced several children of mixed blood-each one a different color. Simply by bringing her baby for a cursory examination, a Vietnamese mother could get a "technical certificate of white race" that entitled the youngster to free care and education...
Bomb & Baby Sitter. As a scrawny, limber-legged 16-year-old, Dotty earned a trip to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics. To the youngster, the games seemed unpleasantly charged with politics and crowded with chaperones. To make matters worse, she was nudged out of first place by Hungary's Ibodya Czak in a tie-breaking jump-off at 5 ft. 3! in. Dotty came home to her mother's little house in Mitcham and leaped through her days, kicking at high bannisters, skipping rope and playing netball, a British version of basketball. She accumulated more medals and trophies...
...days that followed, Li Po was as inquisitive as any youngster, but with a difference. Why was there no portrait of Mao Tse-tung on the wall? How were Aunty and Uncle Huang serving the people? Why were the poisonous movies of the Americans shown in Hong Kong...