Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early or you won't arrive at the frontiers of research in time. You can't specialize narrowly any more; biology flows into biochemistry and on into mathematics." Jerome Metzner, chairman of the school's biology department, agrees: "When you get a bright youngster and focus his interest early, the kid soars like a comet. He gets a five-to ten-year start in professional life...
...Idyll, a nine-year-old girl is picked up by a charming psychopath who has escaped from a mental hospital. Why would a youngster living in a peaceful English village with devoted, decent parents find such an acquaintance rewarding? The answer lies in a bracketed look at 1) the parents' possessive dullness, 2) the child's imagination and romantic thirst for life, brought into play for the first time when the madman's own imagination reaches out in sympathy and need. Conventionally, this ominous encounter ends well after a long spell of breath-holding on the part...
John and Frances Gunther's first brush with death came in 1929, when their only daughter Judy died at four months of a glandular ailment. In April 1946 they learned that their only son, then 16, had a brain tumor. For 15 months Johnny, a lively, charming youngster, clung heroically to life and sanity. Though Frances (who now lives in Jerusalem) had divorced Gunther in 1944, they fought an agonizing side-by-side battle for Johnny's life. In desperation they consulted more than 30 doctors, tried such extreme treatments as intravenous mustard-gas injections, which had never...
Wounded, Nebu tries to get to a white town to deliver the boy to his friends. In his uncomplicated Kikuyu mind, he knows that he has wronged his white master and wants to atone by returning the youngster. As he carries him through the bush, trailed by a leopard waiting for a chance to make a double kill, Nebu is tormented by his son's presence even more than by his festering wound. The leopard, an implacable figure of retribution, provides a horrible ending that blends all the tragic elements of white, black and half-black frustrations and hatred...
...suffering from such a bad cold that every breath caused pain in her chest, she won in record time (10:16.2). He told John just how fast to swim each lap of both the 440 and the 1650, and saw John follow orders so closely that the youngster broke six world records on the way to winning both races. In the 1,650-yd. swim, John kicked along so well that he cracked four records before he finished the grind...