Word: elders
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...write me letters about things and people--especially people--at Oxford, I could compile them in a book: Letters Between a Father and Son, or My Oxford Letters." Family Letters: Between Father and Son, a moving collection of the Naipaul family's written correspondence, is the realization of the elder Naipaul's suggestion...
...course the Taiwanese find plenty of congressional allies during U.S. election seasons, and bashing the incumbent over a China policy that's remained largely consistent from administration to administration since Nixon has become a tradition in campaigns for the White House - Clinton and Gore beat up on Bush the elder over Tiananmen Square; Bush the younger beats up on Clinton and Gore over technology transfers and spying. And all the while, over in Taiwan the main candidates square off over just how hard they'll push to remain outside of the mainland's orbit, driving Beijing apoplectic...
...start at the now-defunct W.F. Schrafft's Candy Co. thanks to some family connections. His father was a Boston police officer outside the factory in 1939, when Marshall's older brother needed a job. His father walked in and asked if they had any jobs for his elder...
Wyant had defeated the elder Yik twice earlier in the year, at an Ivy League scrimmage and at the USSRA Five-Man Team Championship in New Haven. This time, however, Yik rebounded from a 15-9 loss in his first game to take the next three...
...Bush's campaign appearance Sunday, in which he was joined by several members of his family, including his father, ex-president George Bush: "I don't think the jury's out on whether it had a positive impact at all. It may have even been a negative. The elder Bush had his share of problems in New Hampshire, so there may be a negative memory of that which could have hurt [the younger] Bush...