Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young ladies on the other side. I stood with the males. Feeling a little odd, I crossed the floor to be with the weaker sex.) Only two young women were seated. When the one nearest me perceived I was standing, she instinctively arose and tendered her seat to one older than she. Now, in a period when the elders are claiming that respect and consideration for older persons is a lost art in college youth, a Harvard coed stands as a living denial of the regrettable accusation. Such an act (coupled with subsequent deeds of kindness and graciousness...
...father had fled the wrath of the Ranas. Graduating from the University of Calcutta with a law degree, Koirala joined Nehru and Gandhi in the fight for Indian independence, was jailed for 2^ years by the British. With the downfall of the Ranas, he returned to Nepal with his older half brother, M. P. Koirala, over whom he later triumphed in a struggle for power...
...children glanced out the schoolhouse window, saw the plane and screamed, "Air raid!" The pupils dropped to the floor as the plane grazed the schoolhouse roof, showered glass on the children, spewed flaming gasoline on an older school building next door, and blew up with a roar that sent burning wreckage raining through a ten-block area of flimsy wood-and-paper houses...
...physician for the Eagles. With Dr. Joseph E. Salvatore of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he has worked on the bone glue for four years, has found that patients with compound fractures can return to work four to ten months sooner than with plaster casts. It helps particularly with older people whose bones are slow to heal. While the yellowish bone glue has produced no toxic or foreign-matter reactions in patients thus far, Drs. Mandarino and Salvatore are still studying it for potential long-term ill effects...
FARRINGTON MANUFACTURING Co..a56-year-old maker of display cases, is one of the older companies that changed course to catch the electronics boom, moved to 128. In 1929 Farrington devised the department stores' Charga-Plate, which gave it entry to two of the 1950s' hottest business areas-credit cards and automatic accounting systems. Four years ago Farrington moved into one of the highway's larg-« est plants (354,000 sq. ft.), there prints credit cards (for Hilton, 35 oil companies, all the airlines), manufactures printed circuits. It also produces a remarkable machine: an electronic scanner...