Word: agedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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His spirits lift when he meets Mr. Hal and Miss Lissie, two old and aged friends of his uncle's. These two drop by regularly to talk and reminisce; they prove themselves remarkable founts of memory, particularly Miss Lissie, who confides that she has lived in countless incarnations dating back...
He licked his lips. He sipped water. His ashen face looked aged. The strain was evident as Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita faced his challengers in the Diet. The embattled Japanese leader made a series of extraordinary admissions to a special session of the Diet budget committee. Last October Takeshita flatly...
For 20 minutes Saturday, Lonoff encountered the quirks of aged Widener Library in person, as she remained trapped in a powerless east side elevator waiting for library staff and Cambridge Fire officials to rescue her.
This does not make perestroika popular. A middle-aged book translator in Moscow says that votes for Yeltsin were votes against the establishment and Gorbachev. But doesn't Gorbachev represent change? "Who gives a damn about change when you can't buy cheese and aspirin anymore? They've had their...
Anything run by women, especially middle-aged women with little economic or political leverage, seems to be lesser. It may be--only because men in power have never taken women seriously. For older generations of women, it was one of the only places in politics that they could be taken...