Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mollycoddling. Camp Wawbeek, a typical camp in the group, has 80 children, aged 8 to 14 (to be replaced later in the summer by adults and older children). Half of them are polio victims, 16 have cerebral palsy, eight have muscular dystrophy, and the rest suffer from a variety of crippling ailments. Special care was taken in constructing new buildings: all but one are flush with the ground, doors are wider than normal to accommodate wheelchairs and spraddled crutches, there are railings along porches and in bathrooms. Showers, too, are adjustable for children in wheelchairs...
...matter of age and health is bound to be an issue in the Cooper-Barkley campaign. Although the durable old Veep is in vigorous health, the indisputable fact that he is 24 years older than his opponent will weigh heavily against him with many voters. He is only a few pounds overweight (190 Ibs.), but, as he rumbles, "I always gain weight on campaigns. Out visiting these people, they put on the table Kentucky ham, fried chicken, turnip greens, boiled potatoes, three-story cake and the other good eats. It's hard for a healthy man to resist." Barkley...
...Force, which absorbs 1,200 new regular officers yearly, expects eventually to get half from the academy's planned enrollment of 2,600. As at the older academies, cadets will be nominated mainly by Congressmen. The Air Force has already planned a sinewy four-year curriculum (1,548 hours of humanities, 1,629 of science, 2,176 of airmanship, including drill as well as flight), and intends to build, besides school buildings and barracks, an air field and a stadium for the football team...
Admitted to the bar at 23, he was the youngest lawyer in France. A student-days fight with royalists gave Mendès-France 1) a permanently splayed nose and 2) an urge to go into politics. Only 25, but wearing a mustache to appear older, he was elected a Deputy in 1932-the youngest in the Chamber of Deputies...
...time when older players dominate the game (Hogan is 42; most of the other top-seeded players range from their mid-30s to 50). Snead looked as good in 1954 as he had looked in 1937. He recognizes that competitive golf is still a young man's game, and attributes the present dearth of young stars to the Korean...