Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I was a boy," said Dwight Eisenhower, "it was thought we could live our lives on a little piece of ground in the West, and the older folks-grandfather and grandmother-could live in the same home after their days of hard work were ended. That's the way we took care of ourselves and our older people. Today, through the changes in our industrial system, we as a people have become dependent for old-age security more and more upon pensions, insurance policies, savings bonds and savings accounts. These are the people that are particularly hurt...
Abraham Joshua Twerski, 28, graduated from medical school this week. It was no mean feat, for Twerski is a Jewish rabbi like his father, two uncles, father-in-law, two older brothers and (when they finish their studies) two younger twin brothers. And to keep the Torah as an Orthodox Jew for six years of studies in Milwaukee's Roman Catholic Marquette University was something like running a sack race, an egg race and an army obstacle course at the same time...
...earlier portions of his address President Pusey traced the development of the course in moral philosophy through the older universities of America, and posed the question, "Where in our college has this course gone?" He expressed the belief that although we no longer have the formal course in moral philosophy, taught in the old days by the president of the university himself to the members of the senior class, all the students and professors together teach...
Beer at the Table. The children were reacting to a problem centuries older than Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1912), in which he observed: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him," and as up-to-date as a London councilor's remark: "Every man carries his caste mark in his mouth." But last week, with diction and elocution classes flourishing throughout Britain and the BBC spreading its own slightly precious brand of proper accent into every home, caste-conscious Britain was still confronted by an unexpected phenomenon...
Like earlier Hamilton Basso heroes. Plantation Owner John Bottomley is clearly derived from John P. Marquand. He is handsome but not terribly bright, brimful of ideals that make life difficult for him. Though often obstinate, he is invariably polite, and when older men say something nauseous, he answers "Yes, sir" in a mildly disapproving tone. When women quarrel, he never understands that they are quarreling about him. The girls are pure Marquand, too. always prattling merrily about nothing while the men brood, and when noble-souled John says something portentous to them, they respond with irrelevancies-"You need a haircut...