Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orators suffered severely with a stutter in his youth. In freshman Latin class at a Catholic high school, recitation was particularly difficult for young Joe. "Jimmy O'Neill, a great prankster, hung me with the nickname Impedimenta, Biden recalls. "I was the impediment." Over the next few years, the youngster shook his affliction. "I forced myself. I memorized passages and practiced a cadence." Despite the speech problem, Biden had the good looks and sincere geniality that won friends. "I always knew I had the ability to persuade people," he recalls...
Serge Klarsfeld, a French Jewish lawyer who as a youngster hid in a closet listening to the Gestapo torture the neighbor's children, argues that sending innocent people to ovens is no common crime...
Local scores could easily be raised if only top students were allowed to take the test, said Sateriale. "[However,] the best thing to do is to give every youngster a chance...
...cold sea water. A flotilla of small boats soon surrounded the upended ship, and seamen searched for passengers who had been hurled into the water from open upper decks. Susan Hames of Coventry, who was pitched overboard, said a little girl was in the water with her. The terrified youngster cried, "I'm going to die, and I've been ever such a good girl. I've never told any lies." The girl survived...
Today's volunteers, however, are no throwback to the '60s activists. "It's not enough to say peace, love and happiness," notes Brown Sophomore David Graff, who worked in a storefront school in Harlem and is now a big brother to a youngster in Providence. "We need to be realistic about our expectations so we don't burn out." Linda Chisholm, co-director of the Partnership for Service Learning, an organization that has sent students to assist schools in Jamaica and Ecuador, explains, "They haven't decided who is right and who is wrong. And they aren't saying that...