Word: golden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disproportionate death rate among those forced to retire, and 25% of all known suicides are committed by people over 65. Beyond that, years of substantial inflation have eroded their pensions and kept many of them from enjoying the often illusory, but highly touted leisure pursuits of their allegedly golden years. Says Joseph Schwartz, who retired after 27 years as a Chicago schoolteacher, then retired once again as a park supervisor and is looking for a job now: "Above all, you must work...
...some of his energies in his very anger. He has turned his white-shingled home in Lexington, ten miles from his old office in Boston, into a headquarters for his campaign to improve the care of the aged in his community. His initial target was Lexington's Golden Age Club, which Goodwin felt was not concerned with the aged poor, many of whom were forced to live on welfare. Goodwin helped found a rival organization, the Council on Aging, which obtained $5,000 from the Federal Government to begin to meet the needs of the majority of some...
DiNicola embarked on his first road trip with the Camp LeJeune gladiators to Charlotte, N.C. to compete in the North Carolina Golden Gloves. He advanced to the finals and was slated to oppose Willie Adams...
...drugstore window and there was a full page story on the guy I was going to fight. You know. 'Willie Adams has eyes on Olympics and is 52-8.' I was all flipped out but I knocked him down in the second round and won the Carolina Golden Gloves...
Fighting as a lightweight last spring, he beat the Massachusetts Golden Gloves winner. A week later, his occasional sparring partner and best friend at Harvard. Pat Melendez, was killed in the ring. "That blew my mind and I quit boxing naturally," recalls DiNicola somberly. "He had a lot of charisma and everyone who knew him loved...