Word: fiftyish
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...students were already in school when two Negro women wandered past, unwisely stopped to see what was going on. Fat, fiftyish Madge Lucas, one of the noisiest of the whites, lumbered over to the Negro women, shouted, "Who's going to help me take these niggers for a ride?" The response was less than enthusiastic. "All right," screamed Madge Lucas, "you take care of the cops, and I'll get those niggers in the car myself." At that point, four husky troopers closed in on her, dumped her without further ceremony into a patrol car, and lugged...
Died. Thelma Chrysler Foy, fiftyish, upper-crust society hostess and patron of the arts, daughter of the late automagnate Walter P. Chrysler, wife of Chrysler Director Byron C. Foy, repeatedly voted among the world's ten best-dressed women; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold tells the story of a character admittedly like Waugh himself-fiftyish, a successful novelist, Tory, Roman Catholic, snobbish, a connoisseur of manners and wine, member of a first-class club and old boy of a second-class public school...
Before destiny sideswipes him, the lean, fiftyish Pippin is content to live on his unearned income and enjoy a nightly orgy of stargazing from the roof of his Parisian town house. More concierge than wife, Mme. Héristal rations out new telescopes with a parsimonious hand. Daughter Clotilde, 20, is addicted to Hollywood horse operas and has already Saganalyzed her life in a bestseller written at 15, Adieu...
Politico-Religious. Shrewd, tough, fiftyish General Le Van Vien is one man who could well afford to regard the lifting of a few million francs' worth of uninsured gems as petty thievery. Not long ago he ruled supreme as czar of the underworld in French Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies...