Word: elders
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Always modest, Moore stressed the playmaking abilities of his linemates. And while assistant captain Chris Bala, rookie winger Tim Pettit, and the elder Moore certainly did their part in setting up Dom's first collegiate hat trick, no one can take anything away from...
...Wael sweated in the sun as he raced up the sandy bank to the first of several barbed-wire fences around the Israeli defenses. Hussein called to him to come back. He was too close. The Israelis would target him. Wael pushed ahead. "Martyrdom was calling him," his elder brother Fawzi says...
...years Keith Bearden, 33, had given up on his family, including his elder brother Dean, 38. Their parents' divorce cleaved the family into separate camps, and Keith wanted no part of either one. "I was really angry," he says. He also felt that he, a self-described "meek intellectual," had nothing in common with his tattooed, motorcycle-riding, machinist brother. Then Dean started telephoning a couple of years ago, just to see how Keith was doing. Keith, to his surprise, was happy to get the calls. Dean says he had no particular plan, that he had never even thought about...
...long as Bush has been able to drop the hint. Powell is a minority Republican who talks like a Democrat, a national amalgam, a military man who could have been a unifying Ike but didn't like politics enough to run. He's a perfect combination of the the elder Bush's Gulf War and the younger's "compassionate conservatism," and he's just prickly enough with his adopted party to be believable...
...CLARENCE THOMAS APPOINTED BY George Bush (1991) Supporters say he is "the leading conservative in America"; liberals call him "the youngest, cruelest Justice." He owes his career to the elder Bush, who made him a judge in 1990 and 15 months later nominated him to replace Thurgood Marshall on the high court...