Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the streets of Tel Aviv and Haifa, bent on marketing by day, on moviegoing by night (Israel's per capita cinema attendance is the world's highest). Over their cheesecake and Nescafé, young apartment dwellers talk about new cars and skin-diving. Out in the older collective settlements, where palm-shaded bungalows hedged by bright bougainvillea and hibiscus have long since supplanted the rude huts, basketball courts and swimming pools indicate that the new generation of native-born Israelis prefer sports to politics...
...such inequalities, as well as the needs of the untended poor, the spiritual indifference of the older inhabitants to new sacrifices, and their unwillingness to populate and plant the open spaces, that most disturb Ben-Gurion as he surveys his country. But what disturbs others in Ben-Gurion's administration is the artificiality of Israel's prosperity. Israel lives on German reparations of about $60 million a year, which will run out in 1965; on U.S. aid ($40 million in 1955); on gifts and loans from world Jewry ($67 million in 1955). Unless economic reforms are made, warns...
...world." Said President-elect Kubitschek, to appreciative laughter and applause: "Yesterday I had the great pleasure of visiting President Eisenhower at Key West. I first met him in 1946, in Brazil, while I was a member of Congress. I can assure you that he does not look ten years older. He looks great. I say that in my capacity as a physician...
Although the hiring of a permanent faculty takes to priority, Snyder also cited the critical lack of housing facilities available to Public Health students. Theoretically they are entitled to a certain number of rooms in the Medical School dorms, but overcrowding and the fact that they are older men, often with families, have combined to keep them...
Inevitably he nuzzles at puppy love. The girl Wanda has "elfin-upslanting eyes" and "wheaten lashes," and when Tone is near, she deep-breathes like "a deer chased by dogs." An older woman, a German, finally initiates Tone in the mysteries of sex ("Aber Gott . . . you are so young'1). Meanwhile Author Boles unravels a skein of subplots. Readers will find themselves aging rather more rapidly than Tone, who keeps himself in shape by doing knee-bends in moments of crisis and repeating that everything is "mighty very fine." The same cannot be said of Author Boles...