Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture was blurred, and the boy was older, but the young folks convinced Bessie and Dave that it was Ed, all right. Soon the cabin was filled with kinsmen, neighbors, children and newsmen. Then Jim Dickenson, another son of Dave Dickenson's first marriage, burst upon the scene, glared at reporters and photographers and demanded: "When are you going to Hollywood, Pop? . . . You'll bring Ed nothing but harm by talking to all these folks and having your picture took." Bessie protested: "Don't listen to him, Dave." But Dave Dickenson was old and tired. "Bessie...
According to West Coast air gossip, the F-100 is a sweet plane to fly. One test pilot who was flying it for the first time radioed back to earth: "If I were ten years older, this plane would be a great substitute for sex." It exceeded the speed of sound on its first test flight. So far it has logged more than 100 hours of flight, and very few bugs have shown up. North American claims that it is eight months ahead of its schedule, and can go into full production in three more months...
...ideal America would be a kind of super-Europe, the successful, functioning substance of centuries ago, but equipped with all modern conveniences, its diplomats so many Metternichs riding to peace conferences in helicopters, taking its philosophy and manners (as Rome took Greece's) from older and wiser heads, via teletypewriter. That is the sentimental dream behind the oft-heard European advice that the U.S. ought to learn how to be "realistic" from Europe...
...handle this problem intelligently, Congress is likely to change the Social Security regulations that keep many older workers from taking jobs they need and would like to have. But the biggest part of the job must be done by private industry. Many corporations are already reviewing prejudices against hiring workers over 40 and policies on compulsory retirement at 65. Corporations which have done no thinking at all about the problem now realize that they had better start. Before long, the bulk of the nation's workers will be in the over-40 group...
...there were complications. Freud was the eldest son, but of his father's second marriage; he was thus born uncle to nieces and nephews older than himself -"one of the many paradoxes his young mind had to grapple with." Like other firstborns, he suffered the pain of having to share his mother with "intruders" (younger brothers and sisters). Author Jones has a lot of tricky unraveling to do for this tangled period, and comes out at the end with a neat ball of womb-symbols, erotic fantasies and thwarted infantile greed. Of this last, "traces . . . remained in [Freud...