Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Have Gone Soft." Reminders of man's ignoble qualities were falling on the public ear with increasing frequency, not only in sermons, books and editorials, but in plain-spoken political speeches. Economic Man, his wants largely satisfied for the time, was no longer the main concern of the stump-thumping candidates. Instead, a rising chorus of politicos urged a prosperous U.S. to see beyond personal prosperity to national purpose. With the approach of 1960, a major new political issue was emerging, capable of maturing into a serious debate of U.S. aims and purposes...
Midway in the party, three unawed children dressed as witches and a black cat bounded in the door, demanded trick or treat. For a time, Touré and Stevenson were closeted in the study, talking about trade conditions in Guinea. The dinner party might have lasted longer had not Mrs. Touré's dress Zipper broken. After temporary repairs with safety pins she collected her husband, headed home...
...more than $86,000 so far this year, and Paul Butler has made no major move to reduce expenses. Neither has Philadelphia Multimillionaire (construction) Matt McCloskey, the party treasurer, who shares with Butler the responsibility and the blame for fund-raising and budgeting. The two men are no longer on speaking terms-and the party's indebtedness continues to spiral upward. The sleek party house organ, Democratic Digest, continues to pile up a $70,000-$80,000 annual deficit; rental for the committee's commodious offices amounts to $2,820 per month, and the 80-man staff draws...
...long-distance orders of others. But last week the slouching sentries were snapping as never before. Egypt's Nasser had sent up his own commander in chief, Abdel Hakim Amer, on a special mission from Cairo-to make a restless partner happier with its lot. No longer was there any pretense that Syrians were running their own show...
Women live longer than men, but what kind of women live longest? Nuns, according to the results of two studies published by Dr. Con J. Fecher, professor of economics at the Roman Catholic University of Dayton (Ohio). The control of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, to which members of a close community were especially prone, has added 14 years to a 20-year-old nun's life expectancy since the turn of the century. After comparing 90,000 nuns in 90 sisterhoods with white females throughout the U.S., from 1900 to 1958, Dr. Fecher also estimated that...