Word: octogenarian
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...Beyer, a pharmacy clerk in San Francisco, is in even worse condition. Her octogenarian parents' life savings of $30,000 were devoured before her father's four-year battle with cancer and a heart condition ended in his death on Christmas day. She is still responsible for her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. "Now I am having to dip into my own savings, and I will probably have to go through all of it," says Beyer. "I have been to every agency to ask for help. I am bitter, but I try to take...
...feeble-brained hick, an unshaven octogenarian, a spiteful but harmless old man showing signs of senility...
...health to set an example for others to follow before their powers became impaired." But informing a failing Justice when to leave has always been a delicate matter. At the turn of the century, when one member of the court was designated to suggest resignation to the often befuddled octogenarian Stephen Field, the younger man eased into the subject by reminding him of a similar visit Field had once had to make to a senior Justice. "Yes!" cut in the cantankerous Field. "And a dirtier day's work I never did in my life...
Clara Peller first cried, "Where's the beef?" for Wendy's a year ago. The diminutive octogenarian actress made the phrase a part of the language and helped Wendy's sales jump 31% last year, to $945 million, at the company's 3,095 fast-food restaurants worldwide. She will ask the question no more, at least for Wendy's. The firm decided last week to end its relationship with Peller. Reason: she made a commercial for Campbell's Prego Plus Spaghetti Sauce in which she says, "I found...
Travel plans are made on both coasts and down in the Deep South. A book, Malcolm Cowley's The View from 80, prefatory spade work, makes its way by post between these points. "The new octogenarian feels as strong as ever when he is sitting back in a comfortable chair," the author observed. "In a moment he will rise and go for a ramble in the woods, taking a gun along, or a fishing rod, if it is spring. Then he creaks to his feet, bending forward to keep his balance, and realizes he will do nothing...