Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointed to find that in our age of so-called enlightenment so little progress has been made toward solving the main issues of our destiny. It took 43 theologians five years of study to reach the conclusion that, after all, Hell may not be a place of fiery torment but a state of loneliness and frustration. This still makes very little difference in view of the Bible's numerous statements that Hell is the common grave of all mankind and where "man hath no pre-eminence above a beast [Ecclesiastes...
...among old friends and old memories. One other contributing fact: when he awoke in the sixth-floor suite of the Sunflower Hotel one morning, Dwight Eisenhower had turned 69 (b! Oct. 14, 1890). With Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, he became the third U.S. President to reach that age in office...
...carriage, all were firm and strong, and the quick laugh and quicker grin marked a personality that had not lost its joy in life. "President Eisenhower," noted the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "entered his seventieth year this week, the first White House incumbent of that age who did not resemble the contemporary concept...
...staff is aware of subtle changes in manner that also belie his age. At 69, Dwight Eisenhower is less set in his ways than he was when he first took the Presidential oath of office at 62. He has become at once more pragmatic and more flexible and adaptable-even foxy in his skillful handling of Congress and his new-found warm relations with the press. He has become more and more at ease in office, while making it clear that he would be more than happy...
...their old foes, the Praja Socialists, Red leaders signed a resolution expressing support for "the Prime Minister and the government of India, in defense of the territorial integrity of our great country," then muttered complex explanations to angry party diehards. Unappeased, Puran Joshi, editor of the party weekly, New Age, refused even to print the resolution to which the Bombay comrades had subscribed...