Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegate was chunky, Paris-educated Marshal Chen Yi, 60, who has been Foreign Minister for three years and who, as a veteran of the 1927 Nanchang uprising and commander of the rearguard in Mao Tse-tung's Long March in 1934, is one of Chinese Communism's elder statesmen. Predictably, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was at hand at the airport as Chen's Tu-104 jet touched down. While Chen was posing at one ramp with Gromyko, so many grey-clad figures scampered out of the rear of the plane and off the field that...
...this place to make money, not to serve tramps," thundered Mrs. John T. Reges at the trio of drenched, mud-spattered hikers who led a march to her Old Anglers Inn near the Potomac last week and began unwrapping their homemade sandwiches. Singling out the mild-looking, silver-haired elder of the group, she barked: "Get off that rug! Get over there with the rest of the wet ones." When someone protested, she pointed at the puddles on the floor and demanded: "Well, is he going to clean up the mess?" Then she turned on the grinning youngster...
...with Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. Last week, filling out the G.O.P. spectrum, he met with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller at the White House, and later, visiting New York City for the first time since his inauguration huddled with Elder Republicans Herbert Hoover and Douglas MacArthur...
...Michael Redgrave's chestnut-haired, statuesque (5 ft. 10½ in.) daughter Vanessa, 24, was appearing in Ibsen's rarely performed The Lady from the Sea as Boletta, the awkward elder daughter, and achieving a superb characterization after years of promising but unspectacular parts. Wrote Kenneth Tynan in the Observer: "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear...
...pagan Realm is invaded by Crusaders. These last are happily exterminated, excepting a worthy Christian elder. Him, and his image of Saint Nicholas, the King puts to the test: the image must guard the royal treasure. But--three thieves appear, and make short work of the king's coffers. Alack, the elder is to be mishandled! Saint Nicholas makes haste, to convince the thieves of their error. The treasure is returned, doubled. All the pagans are converted. Praises are sung...