Word: centenarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Hadj Mohammed el Mokri, chubby, white-bearded centenarian (estimated Moslem age: 116), Grand Vizier (Premier) to the last five Sultans of Morocco, dishonored and disfortuned for serving the wrong boss (i.e., France) in his country's successful struggle for independence; in Rabat, Morocco...
...midst of death a rage to live. Sky and sea, bread and honey, woman and song, all are celebrated on "the fields of praise." Lying with his paramour Captain Polyxygis thinks: "There's nothing in this world above to equal woman." A young Greek asks Captain Michales' centenarian father: "How has life seemed to you during those hundred years. Grandfather?" "Like a glass of cool water, my child." replies the old man. "And are you still thirsty, Grandfather?" "The graybeard raised his hand . . . 'Woe to him,' he cried in a loud voice, as though he were...
...Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration"? Who said: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it"? A centenarian was asked how many grandchildren he had. He replied that if he divided them into groups of two, three, four, five or six, he always had one left over, but that when he divided them into groups of seven there was no remainder...
...General Assembly's Trusteeship Committee was told that the centenarian Fon of Bikom, tribal king in the British Cameroons, should be allowed to keep all his wives. Said Awni Khalidy, delegate from Iraq: "We should leave the man alone. It is enough to handle 100 women at one time. May God give him strength in his arduous task...