Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt sat down in an inconspicuous seat on the Democratic side, dutifully boned up on House procedure, and whispered occasionally to his colleagues. With his name, his smile, his war record and his apparent political charm, he had a potential political future that no other American of his age could match. His own major problem, it now seemed, would be how to deserve all that might be thrust...
...involved," said the University head, "is an attitude, a state of mind, which influences a man's whole character and guides his reactions to-ward both persons and problems. Two manifestations of this attitude will be a deep sense of social responsibility and a firm conviction that the golden age lies ahead of us, not behind...
...fill Clement's post, Pennsy directors picked another oldster, hulking (6 ft. 6 in.) Executive Vice President Walter S. Franklin, himself at the voluntary retirement age of 65 (mandatory retirement age: 70). Franklin had started on a freight platform in Philadelphia in 1906, worked steadily up through the freight division. He left the Pennsy three times-twice to become president of other railroads (Wabash and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton). Each time he returned to a better job with the Pennsy. In 1948 he was made executive vice president...
...succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie's tenderness and Robert Louis Stevenson's romance flocked after a new hero who could give them the illusion of a jovial literary know-it-all in the midst of the noisy, shimmying Jazz Age...
...age of three Comrade Ogilvy had refused all toys except a drum, a submachine gun, and a model helicopter. At six-a year early, by a special relaxation of the rules-he had joined the Spies; at nine he had been a troop leader. At eleven he had denounced his uncle to the Thought Police after overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies ... At 19 he had designed a hand grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed 31 Eurasian prisoners in one burst...