Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Changes. Moscow could no longer listen to the tale of the world. It was the heart of the tale. The Revolution once more made it the capital of Russia. Once more, the country's tyrants dwelt in the Kremlin. With the new masters came symbols of the age that produced them-factories (steel, machine tools, electric equipment, autos, locomotives). The Communist planners went to work, tore down whole sections, built new functional concrete palaces...
Sophoulis, who wants to fight Greece's Communists without establishing a dictatorship, promptly promised an amnesty for guerrillas and political prisoners, thousands of whom are not Communists. Sophoulis, however, is 86; he can remember the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Handicapped by his age and a record of political vacillation, Sophoulis inherited a state of civil war and a wrecked national economy. He did not look like a man who could steer Greece to peace and safety; but Washington had no better ideas, perhaps because Greece had no better politicians...
Herbert Hoover, lately turned 73, encountered the press as he passed through Chicago, cleared up something that had been on at least one reporter's mind. "No man at my age," said the only living ex-President, "should take the nomination...
Steep Descent. The man who can put medieval scholasticism into such comfortable modern dress was born in Belfast, Ireland, where his grandfather, an itinerant Welsh boilermaker-turned-shipbuilder, had settled. At the age of twelve, young...
...born. Puritania was strictly administered by Stewards who issued complex rules of behavior and clapped forbidding masks over their faces whenever they mentioned the Landlord. Searching for his island vision, John one day found "in the grass beside him ... a laughing brown girl of about his own age, and she had no clothes on. 'It was me you wanted,' said the brown girl. 'I am better than your silly Islands.' And John rose and caught her, all in haste, and committed fornication with her in the wood...