Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congressional history. Mills, the overlord of federal revenue legislation, whose Ways and Means Committee has responsibility for drafting major tax, trade and Social Security bills, has long savored his reputation as the most powerful man in Congress. The spectacle of one of the House's most revered elder statesmen cavorting onstage with a stripper sent shock waves through Congress, most especially members of Mills' own party. In sorrow, House Speaker Carl Albert announced that Mills would not be Ways and Means chairman when the 94th Congress convened in January. A confused and ailing Mills checked himself into...
Last year, at the Holiness Church of God in Jesus' Name in Carson Springs, Term., an assistant pastor and a church elder died after drinking strychnine during a snake-handling ceremony. Soon after, a circuit court judge signed an injunction prohibiting snake handling at the church but-curiously -permitting the drinking of strychnine...
...Greece these days (or in Athens, at least), is the extreme left's appeal to middle-class youth. And what is almost unbelievable is the older generation's tolerance of the left, in light of its paranoid attitude from after World War II until the junta's imposition. Now elder Greeks feel very hostile (literally paranoid) towards the far right...
...fragments of pumpkin and lentils," reports TIME New Delhi Correspondent James Shepherd. "Queues of sev eral hundred emaciated people at each kitchen get what is often no more than a quarter-pound of the gruel, and sometimes that is shared among six people. In one village, a shame faced elder confessed that Hindus were violating the ban on eating cows and were consuming dead cattle and buffaloes. 'What else can we do?' he implored pathetically...
Ford's suits have been comfortably baggy and wrinkled. The men's clothiers are planning a massive counterattack to put him into some of those fastidious, elder-statesman outfits that Nixon and Johnson wore. No wrinkles, no bulges, no flaws. Nobody who really works can keep clothes like that, which may have been part of our trouble. Ford has been seen with buckle shoes, no-cuff pants and colored shirts. The other day he had on a gray shirt. Not a dirty shirt. Just a gray-colored shirt, like one of those which children and wives...