Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Masai elder sat in the Lord Delamere Restaurant in the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi and explained that all animals are left-handed. It is true, said the elder, named Moses. Never get onto a lion's left side. A lion attacks to his left. All animals instinctively lead with the left paw, the left hoof, the left horn. Even cows are left-handed, said Moses...
...visitor walked on through the hills, his hands behind him, like an abbot. Then he glanced up at Joseph and saw that the elder was looking at him in consternation...
...House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, to become a counselor at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. He missed the excitement of Government service, for all its headaches, and Iranscam probably extinguished his prospects of becoming a policymaker again. Instead of being regarded as a wise elder statesman as he had hoped, McFarlane found himself viewed as the official who had first favorably presented a plan to sell arms to Iran, and thus led the way into a disaster that has profoundly shaken the presidency he tried to serve...
...distance to the White House from the Hub was even greater. Biographer Goodwin navigates it swiftly. Like other historians, she finds the elder Kennedy's fingerprints all over the political controls. "It was like being drafted," J.F.K. later told Columnist Bob Considine. "My father wanted his eldest son in politics. 'Wanted' isn't the right word. He demanded it." He also molded the Kennedy image by promoting J.F.K.'s essentially ghostwritten Profiles in Courage and having his friend New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock lobby the Pulitzer board of advisers. The book won a Pulitzer Prize...
...rites of any middle-class family anywhere -- watching TV on weekends, anxiously awaiting exam results, going for picnics in the countryside. The narrator himself appears to have been a regular little scamp who delighted in gambling with rubber bands, spraying his friends with Pepsi at his elder sister's wedding and lining up with his schoolmates in a bright new uniform to greet a foreign dignitary with the cry of "Long life to Jacqueline Kennedy...