Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1521, when the first Portuguese colonists settled on her shores, she has provided much of the world's sugar. The gold and diamonds of Minas Gerais made Portuguese monarchs the envy of Europe. The automotive age rode in on Amazonian rubber, and Brazil's terra roxa (red earth) has produced most of the world's coffee...
Discords in the Wings. All four (average age: "near 35") are married, and even their wives and kids get along harmoniously. There is a "fifth member" of the quartet, who, as far as the playing members are concerned, is currently making discords in the wings. Since January, the pianists have been trying to get out of their contracts with Manager Edwin Fadiman (Clifton's brother), who, they claim, gets too big a cut of the receipts. The receipts were nothing to trifle with; last year the quartet made close to $240,000 in concert tours, radio and recordings...
There is nothing unusual about the BU freshman baseball team which sloughed off the Yardlings, 11 to 4, yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. Dozens of major leaguers are still playing ball at the age...
When, at the age of 45, he fell in love with 18-year-old Ellen Ternan (who didn't love him, says Author Pearson, but "placed comfort before chastity"), he had little compunction about booting his wife out of the house, retaining custody of most of the children and giving a thoroughly dishonest version of his behavior to the newspapers. He aroused millions to compassion for "fallen women," but once, hearing a young girl swear obscenely on the street, he had her marched straight off to jail. It was this inability to see life (or himself) in consistent proportions...
Hidden Teammates. The sound of the coyote's cry at night is the common denominator of Southwest experience. It is one of the things that adults remember of a ranch house childhood; when heard again in age it summons up the whole complex of dry weather, sun-baked corrals, rock ranch houses, Mexicans, road runners, cattle, rattlesnakes, water tanks, windmills and lonely country. Says Dobie: it is an integral part of the life of the Southwest, which a New Mexico cowboy called the "land that seemed to be grieving over something-a kind of sadness, loneliness in a deathly...