Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy, if necessary, to enforce the Supreme Court decision? "I think that would be a great mistake," said Stevenson. "That is exactly what brought on the Civil War. It can't be done by troops or bayonets. We must proceed gradually, not upsetting habits or traditions that are older than the Republic...
...older men and fathers could conceivably avoid military service, since the present monthly draft, which varies between 6,000 and 16,000, could adequately be filled by the 200,000 entering the 19-25-year-old age group annually, it was learned...
...students," however, "can handle complete responsibility when it comes upon them more or less suddenly," he explained. Thus "many well-informed and thoughtful college psychiatrists believe it is desirable for the first-year college student to have somewhat stricter limits than those of his older colleagues," Dr. Farnsworth continued...
...exterior, Juscelino Kubitschek resembles his handsome father, João Oliveira, a gay, clever but improvident amateur poet, who died when Juscelino was two. Inside, he is far more like his prim, pious mother Júlia. Stern Widow Júlia reared the boy and his older sister Maria on a schoolteacher's salary. Harried and embittered by poverty, Júlia drilled into her son a fierce will to succeed. Now a hale-looking 83, she still calls him by his boyhood nickname...
...cars (under 11 ft., v. 13½ ft. for oldtime cars) are jointed so that each bends in two places, helping the train hit speeds of 95 m.p.h. on curves on which older trains must hold to 70. The train has hit 110 m.p.h. on test runs. Passengers get a somewhat more jiggly ride than in heavier trains, but there are compensations: air conditioning, a television screen in the lounge that gives passengers an engineer's-eye view of the road ahead...