Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steelworkers would like to have longer vacations (now one week to start, two weeks after five years). But most of all, they want to retire earlier, at age 55 or 60 instead of 65, and on a pension higher than the companies' $72 a month. Argued Metal Drainsman Ed Winters: "I'd like to see a retirement plan that starts after 25 years. Make that 20 years. That's what civil service has-why shouldn't we?" The steelman also wants enlarged health insurance to cover doctor bills short of hospitalization and to carry on after...
...that job. Coolly efficient and able to turn on charm to convince a client or win over a potential ally. Helm became vice president in 1929, first vice president in 1946, president in 1947, finally took over as chairman in 1956, when former chairman N. Baxter Jackson reached retirement age. Never one to stop growing. Helm charts the bank's rising deposits on his office wall. In 1954 he saw an opportunity to grow in one jump. He urged Chairman Jackson to buy out the century-old Corn Exchange Bank, which had 78 branches and $774 million in deposits...
When the geriatricians have succeeded in adding another age to Shakespeare's seven, what will all the porcelain teeth chatter about? The same old things, answers thirtyish Author Spark in this novel of arthritis and ague. None of her major characters will see 70 again, but since no sin has yet proved deadly, the reasoning of the ancients seems to run. there is reason to hope that wrongdoing may even be healthful. So they tyrannize each other, gloat over signs of decrepitude in contemporaries, stir the ashes and the urns of old loves with gossip. One septuagenarian lady runs...
...specter with his arm familiarly draped around Everyman, and this theory is the most tenable one that she leaves. Some readers may object that such mysticism is too woolly, but few of them will complain that Author Spark's funerary satire lacks bite. Any reader over 25-the age at which, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said, a man realizes that he must die-will have an uneasy time forgetting this memento...
...regrets in So Be It, his gentle goodbye to life. He regretted neither his homosexuality nor his lack of religious faith; indeed he took delight in flaunting both to the end. He reflected on everything from old age (it puzzled him) to shaggy-dog stories (they made him laugh) to Moliére and Cervantes (they did not make him laugh...