Word: elders
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Jacob Zuma was born in the poor, sparsely populated area of Nkandla in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. His father, a policeman, died when he was 3 and his mother found work as a domestic servant in Durban. Zuma was working full-time by 15. His elder brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. The apartheid government banned the party the next year, 1960. In 1963, Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson...
...drinking rules” at our introductory meeting, for example, was quite awkward. A proctee invited me to go out to a bar with him and a few other men of, shall we say, “advanced” age and I had to respectfully (he is my elder, after all) decline his invitation...
...months lying on a dirty mattress, eating kitchen leftovers and urinating through a tube attached to his bladder. Propping himself up on his elbows, Abdi digs out a police report that describes how on June 6 last year, six men stormed a Somali grocery store where Abdi and his elder brother Mohammed worked. One shot Mohammed in the forehead, killing him. When Abdi ran, another shot him in the spinal chord, paralyzing him from the chest down. Abdi says the killers wanted him to know why. They told him he was stealing South African land, taking South African money. They...
...also trained rigorously since eating just 20.5 hot dogs in a 2005 Nathan's qualifier. Last month he obliterated Kobayashi's world record of 53.75 franks by nearly six whole hot dogs. He politely calls Kobayashi an "animal" but it was clear that Chestnut was unafraid of his elder...
Michael J. Albano, the chairman of the Chelsea Planning Board, told The Crimson at the time of Barrios' resignation that he would not challenge a progressive “elder statesman” like Wolf, but might consider throwing his hat into the ring “if there wasn’t another good progressive candidate in the race to stand hard against Anthony Galluccio...