Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of New England weather, the juniors will return to Cambridge for indoor sports while the older crowd will find movies and square dancing at the Manchester High School Auditorium...
...economic effect of the depression was on the whole a loss of from two to six years, a period of treading water, of searching around for the right job with the right future. The men married a bit older than most Harvard graduates--experienced observers note a comparative lack of senior sons and daughters at the reunion with a corresponding increase in younger offspring...
...Cheops (TIME, June 7) would prove to be laden with fascinating cargo, a second discovery came to light. Dr. Mohammed Zakaria Ghoneim, Egypt's chief inspector of antiquities, announced that he had found the apparently unrobbed sarcophagus of a Pharaoh of the Third Dynasty (2980-2900 B.C.), even older than Cheops...
...will certainly be The Ten Commandments, made by the patriarch of the industry's epic makers-72-year-old Cecil B. DeMille. It is a remake of his first big Biblical movie, made in 1923, though the present Ten Commandments is a straight biography of Moses while the older version paralleled the Bible story with a contemporary drama of lust and greed (starring Rod La Rocque, Richard Dix and Nita Naldi). Although responsible for such other triumphs as The King of Kings (1927) and The Sign of the Cross (1933), DeMille never before has given Scripture such a generous...
...runaway puritan." There he samples "every kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes and a "long amused mouth...