Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they arrived in Washington over the weekend, Democrats were still divided on two important points of strategy: 1) Should they make a partisan issue of foreign policy? 2) Should they attack President Eisenhower directly? In both cases the older, cooler heads were still saying no, and the younger, hotter heads were saying yes. Whatever view prevailed (the noes had it last week), there will be a heavy overtone of individual and party politics on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill throughout the second session of the 84th. It is likely to last until the Democrats hurry to Chicago...
...Biostatisticians Sidney J. Cutler and William M. Haenszel gave some significant facts about the nation's second biggest killer: ¶At current rates, the number of cancer patients will increase by more than 50% during the next 25 years, since both the U.S. population and the proportion of older people are expected to increase...
Just as Uncle Bob planned, Bill grew up to be a southpaw. But baseball was forgotten when the family moved to Oakland, Calif. Like any other youngster. Bill tried to imitate his older brother, who was a flashy, high-school basketball player. On the court Bill was ambidextrous, but he was mostly Pogo-stick legs and gawky elbows, too awkward to make the regular team until his senior year...
...church buildings. This will mean, said Dr. Wickizer, that for every new recruit to the ministry today there will have to be four in the near future. U.S. Protestants will also have to develop a new kind of pastor, geared to a greater proportion of older citizens and working wives. But this should not mean a tamer type of preaching, he warned: "It worries me that so many of our younger ministers feel that they must preach in a quiet and solemn voice with never a gesture, never a smile, never a change in cadence. It would be a relief...
Natural Gifts. As a boy under a doting father's eye, Randolph was taught to air his opinions. He sat at the family table, often monopolizing conversation and contradicting distinguished visitors. As he grew older, handsome young Churchill's assurance was taken successively for brashness, arrogance, and what the Sunday Observer called his "natural gifts in the unfashionable art of rudeness." After Eton and 18 months at Oxford, his assurance helped him pull off a seven-month, $12,500, U.S. lecture tour at the age of 19. It also helped him to lose six elections for Parliament from...