Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't. Still two down starting the last 18, Palmer continued to press his opponent. And in the hot, sticky afternoon, the older man began to weaken. Three times during the match Palmer pulled even; twice Sweeny held him off. Then, with a fine par 4 on the 32nd, Palmer went ahead. On the next hole he shot a birdie 3 to go two-up. Dog-tired, Sweeny came back to halve the next hole and win the 35th. But from the last tee Sweeny pushed his drive into the rough, chipped up to the green in three. Palmer...
...Runyon drove her husband out of the house, and Mr. Runyon drove his wife to drink. None of this did Damon Jr. or his older sister any good. The sister had a nervous breakdown and Damon Jr. became an alcoholic. By 23, he had been through the D.T.s, jails and psycho wards before getting cured via Alcoholics Anonymous. In Father's Footsteps, Damon Jr., now 36 and a Miami newspaperman, gives his version of why Damon Sr. was everything a father should...
...hopeless end,'' and glorify "teenage super-beauties as the American ideal." Objectionable oldster types, according to State Senator Thomas C. Desmond, 63: Lionel Barrymore (as a cantankerous oldster), Billy Burke (as a rattlebrain). Objectionable youngster types, "the type of youth glorification that makes it difficult for older women to find a useful, happy place in modern life": Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable. Retorted the Motion Picture Association of America: Senator Desmond is making "a desperate play for publicity . . . [and] failed to check the long and respected list of Hollywood's own senior citizens, still going strong...
...past year, mergers have frequently been undertaken in self-defense. The biggest companies in the textile industry are now in a great race to become still bigger, combining the efficient new mills of the South with the going industry of the North, and the fast-growing new synthetics with older fabrics that are still in demand. In autos, the independents are joining forces to compete against the Big Three...
...ambitious adolescents. Previously, the parent lost an exemption when a dependent child earned $600 or more during the course of a year. Now, as long as he furnishes more than half the child's total support, a parent may continue to claim exemptions for children under 19 and older children who are full-time students, no matter how much they earn. And the dependent child can continue to enter himself as an exemption on his own return...