Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catch his breath. The burden of crisis had shifted from the presidency to other hands. The tangled issues of OPA, the draft, labor legislation were squarely, if temporarily, up to Congress. Secretary of State Byrnes was off for Paris, trying to crack the Big Four deadlock on peace treaties. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch was guiding U.S. plans for control of the atom (see INTERNATIONAL). Poised at dead center, the President had nothing to do but wait...
Pressed against the breast-high wooden barrier, a bearded elder stared at a faded photo, glanced up, stared again, then strained his eyes searchingly across the New York pier (see cut). Everyone in the crowd behind him was searching too. A pair of hands reached up out of the throng, jiggling a rudely crayoned sign: "Yaget-Welcome...
...Pedro, like most porteños, bought the family clothes (including his own neat, dark suit) on a ten payment credit plan. Lately Pedro had turned a few pesos by keeping books for a nearby almacén (store), and this, with the $35 a month earned by elder son Guillermo, brought the Pisani budget into precarious balance. Pedro shuddered to think of what would happen if sickness struck his home...
...Formula for Purging. Koreans, remembering Japan's tutelage, were disappointed when the Moscow Conference decided upon another trusteeship, under the U.S. and Russia, for five years. Rightist groups in the American zone, loosely amalgamated in the Representative Democratic Council under elder statesman Syngman Rhee, protested heatedly, berated both the U.S. and Russia. But leftists, gathered under Communist domination in the Democratic People's Front, espoused trusteeship and opposed immediate independence, although Communists all over the world were yipping for the freedom of India and Indonesia...
Dickens set out to prove that he had "renewed his youth." He claimed that he was not his children's father but their "elder brother." He dyed his hair and beard. He replaced his aging friends with younger men. He made a bonfire of all the letters he had kept, exclaiming as they blazed: "Would to God every letter I had ever written was on that pile...