Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholar, he passed the bar examinations a year before he finished at the University of Tennessee's law school. One of his first jobs in a law office, like the assignment that brought him onto the national scene, had to do with an investigation. He was an older attorney's leg man in the investigation of mismanagement at the Knoxville General Hospital. Result of the investigation: a thorough shake-up at the hospital...
...with Liberalism. Bidault went on to the Sorbonne, then to teaching (history and geography) in a lycee. In his 30s Bidault looked so young that a proctor at the school once reprimanded him for smoking; he took to wearing a bowler hat and pince-nez in order to look older...
...National Assembly-even while Dienbienphu still stood-the rush was on to call off the whole embittering war in Indo-China. A man of Munich mounted the rostrum, an older, shrunken figure of the man who in 1938 spoke for the abandonment of Czechoslovakia. "Ceasefire and armistice are in the vital interest of the French army," said Edouard Daladier, now 69. "I fear that if we await the decision of the international conference in Geneva, we shall find ourselves . . . too late, much too late...
...brain is the stuff pillows are made of. Her life is one long strategic retreat. Two Griffin children dominate the story. Dick, the novel's narrator, is an unself-confident 16, torn between the slavish loyalty demanded by his father and the slavish devotion he feels for his older sister, Brace. At the camera distance of one generation, 19-year-old Brace is the sister of Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley-a victim of the new conformism, revolt for revolt's sake. She says profane and obscene things just to shock people, and makes the relatively naive...
...effectiveness of the moment will depend largely on understanding the points of contact between the social and intellectual worlds of the undergraduate and the older graduate student. And they are many...