Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back room of a stucco house in the hills of Amman, a grave young Palestinian university student squatted on the floor and told eleven friends that he had just joined a guerrilla unit to fight the Israelis. "Any age, any size, either sex," he said. "It makes no difference. They are on my land, and I shall kill them." In his shell shattered villa overlooking the River Jordan, Citrus Grower Raouf Halabi, 50, a graduate of Beirut's American University, reported proudly that his riverfront groves have become a nightly jumping-off place for raiding parties into Israel...
Unfortunately, Harvard could not foresee the future very well. Chris Ohiri died in the fall of 1966 at the age of 26. Death too had seemed impossible for Harvard's greatest soccer hero. But Chris was suddenly struck down on the Business School tennis courts one afternoon by an incurable cancer...
...Students claimed that Nabrit spent too much time away from the campus and neglected the "problems and issues raised by the student body." Nabrit was reported to be in Puerto Rico when the protest started. He is scheduled to retire in July and would face mandatory retirement because of age--he is 68--in September...
...student. The Faculty member was appointed by President Pusey--not elected. He has no constituency, and, therefore, no power base or responsibility. In general, he sees his role as a modulating one. He is reluctant to press for his own proposals because he feels guilty about using his age and position to influence the students. Instead, he ends up obstructing things. He constantly opts for more delay to "protect" the students from doing anything rash. In the end, nothing gets done...
...this was a presumptuous role to assume. Even more important was the fact that Shaw Negroes instinctively linked this attitude to the white man's role. Shaw students are used to being told what is best for them, but not, need-less to say, from white students their own age...