Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intrigued by your article on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan [WORLD, March 9]. In most south Indian dialects, annan means elder brother, someone who is older and definitely wiser. A vintage meaning, perhaps, but it is a deserved honorific for one who stands taller and sees farther than most of us. In these days of shortsighted one-upmanship, it is comforting to know we have such annans to care for us. May I take the liberty of calling the U.N. leader annan just once with the flavor of meaning of my mother tongue? UNNIKRISHNAN K. PANICKAR Kerala, India...
...friends went out for dinner the night before the lottery results were announced. One, graced with the wisdom of his elder sister, told the other that our first year would effectively be over when we heard our house assignments. The other came to me almost in tears. Our first year over? How could time pass so quickly? And to be honest, why rush things? We have just finished midterms and a quarter of the year still remains. Why is the lottery so early...
...just 26. It is music entwined with his life: he first encountered them at four, when his father, a violinist and a pedagogue, introduced him to the cello by having him memorize passages from the suites. Thirty-two years later, he would play one for his father when the elder Ma was on his deathbed...
...elder statesmen have gladly welcomed the diaper dandy into their group...
...convicted of his wife's murder in 1954. Forty five years later Sam Reese Sheppard is still fighting to clear his father's name -- and collect a $2 million wrongful-arrest payday for himself. His case was bolstered Thursday by new DNA tests that reveal that blood on the elder Sheppard's pants...