Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uneasy Month. One of Bernadotte's first problems would be to decide whether this thin capillary justified Jewish claims that they should now be allowed to supply Jerusalem unhindered by the Arabs. Another pressing problem: how many Jews of military age should be allowed to enter Palestine? There would be many other problems for Bernadotte. To assist in policing the truce terms, the U.S. sent 21 officers to work with him, ordered planes and ships to patrol the coastline and Arab frontiers...
Orson Welles, 33, sent his old school (Todd, in Woodstock, Ill.) his regrets at not being able to attend the school's centennial celebrations. He was abed in Rome with chicken pox. "Think of it-at his age," murmured the headmaster. "Still the boy wonder...
...telephone with each of his six kids. When he's a little low in spirits, he reads his well-thumbed Bible: "The Bible gives me lots of imagination ... it really picks me up." Nobody heard much about him until he was an old man of 34 (the same age as Louis*) because, he says, of that case of typhoid fever. He came down with it 14 years ago, just when he was beginning to go places as a young fighter. "I could always punch," he is quick to say. But the fever left him weak. Undertrained and undernourished after...
...slight anxiety. Pendle Hill, set in the midst of wealthy suburban Wallingford (twelve miles southwest of Philadelphia), is a long way in time & space from the Lancashire hill where Fox saw his vision of the future Religious Society of Friends. The gently rugged founder of Quakerism, known to his age as "the man in the leather breeches," might have found Pendle Hill's four spacious stone houses, its 15 acres of trees, lawns and gardens strangely remote from the round of jails, beatings and death which was the regular portion of early Quakers. The testimonies of Pendle Hill...
...could not fail to sense that Friends at Pendle Hill were infused with a true Quaker spirit, relaxed but reverent, and that in their three chief activities-worship, study and work-they were seeking solutions for three of the great problems of the age: the alienation of class from class in society, the alienation of the individual from the community, the alienation of man from...