Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sites could have been occupied by Indians in A.D. 1054. At one site (White Mesa) he found a few potsherds that probably date back 900 years. At the other site (Navaho Canyon), a deep cut in the canyon floor exposed a great number that are as old or older...
...having no idea what to expect. As a matter of fact, the institute had no definite idea either. Still in its infancy, the institute had embarked on a bold experiment to find some sort of answer to an increasingly urgent problem: what to do about the growing population of older people now in danger of moldering on the shelf...
...ailments as cancer or chronic ulcers. "It's by no means a panacea for everybody with bladder trouble," says Dr. Bohne. "But the new procedure will replace the reservoir and will, we believe, prevent the kidneys from becoming infected, a result that frequently caused untimely deaths after the older method of radical surgery and the insertion of permanent catheters [artificial drainage tubes] into the kidneys. And if, for example, we can eradicate a cancer that is causing trouble, we're giving the patient a better chance of survival...
Dallas' Tecon Corp., the lively youngster of the construction business that underbid older firms to get the Contractor's Hill job, expects to finish by Aug. 15, and to make a profit of between 30% and 40% on the $4,100,000 it will receive...
Wrestling. Jim's mother was a heavyset, masculine woman who ran the household, even to repairing the plumbing; his father was a light-boned, slightly effeminate weakling who talked in a high-pitched voice. Jim's older brother was a perfectly normal, completely masculine boy whom Jim worshiped. When Jim was born, his mother wanted a girl, kept him in dresses and let his hair grow until he was four, later taught him to do girls' household chores. As Jim grew up. he learned to please his mother by playing her game, wore her clothes around...