Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London papers, the big story quickly became not George-Brown's resignation but press coverage of his subsequent tumble. After the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Express all carried front-page photos of the elder statesman's dive, the lordly Times weighed in with a cane-wagging editorial scolding them for lack of "compassion and delicacy" in showing George-Brown "fallen in the gutter." Perhaps, the Times added sarcastically, the other papers "resented his infringing their monopoly" there...
...easily the Senate's coolest elder statesman. Genial, pipe-smoking Democrat Mike Mansfield, Montana Senator since 1953 and his party's majority leader since 1961, can be sharp-tongued when he needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...
...elder O'Neill said one of the major reasons for his choice for president was that after working with Udall in the House for the past 16 years, he felt the Arizona congressman "towers over the other candidates intellectually and every other...
...lieutenant governor said that he had decided to support Bayh almost four months ago and had discussed this with his father then. The elder O'Neill told him that he hadn't made up his own mind yet about the candidates, but he wanted his son "to do what he wanted...
Bolduc seems to think there's still room for improvement, and his parents agree. Both his mother and father see the tryout as "a fantastic opportunity. It's been an exciting year for Danny. I have no doubt he can make it," the elder Bolduc said...