Word: agelessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ageless Charmer Maurice Chevalier offered in Manhattan a restrained Gallic comment on le rock 'n' roll americain: "It belongs to the fever of this time, but it will pass because you can't spend a lifetime doing that...
...inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to you . . . but now, at least for a few minutes, I welcome you to the peace of my home." Many viewers thought she was speaking indirectly to her critics when she added that today ". . . unthinking people . . . carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery...
Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore (40, going on 46), world's most successful practitioner of the art of athletic geriatrics, was a little slow sweating down to size for his title fight with Challenger Tony Anthony, 22. But ageless Archie finally got down to the 175-lb. limit, hiked up a high-waisted pair of bloomerlike trunks that protected his belly, and went to work. Tony never had a chance. The old man's cunning kept the young man's blows bouncing off arms and shoulders. When Archie rolled out of his shell, his still-swift hands...
...identity, are continuous, and Malone has at least three names before he is done in. As the novel begins, he is lying in a hospital room which is sometimes an asylum cell. He may be 100 years old, though "I call myself an octogenarian," and he has the ageless "sickness unto death" of total despair. In his past life he has apparently been a street cleaner and may have been a murderer, but his only present concern is to be "neither hot nor cold any more, I shall be tepid, I shall die tepid...
...merciless glare of the TV cameras came a little too close for comfort. The Duchess, like several good-looking girls on TV these days, made the mistake of rushing into the new bouffante hairdo, which the camera reproduces as a bunchy, badly made wig. Otherwise, she looked ageless and chic, but rarely at the camera. She fidgeted with flowers, prinked her dress more than once, and lurched across the screen to preen the Duke's hair...