Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aramco also announced the election of Thomas Barger, 49, who was vice president and assistant to the president before, as president to succeed Norman Hardy, who was named board chairman. ¶ Avard E. Fuller. 42, was named president and chief executive officer of Fuller Brush Co., to succeed his older brother. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, who was killed in a sports-car accident. Born in Hartford, Conn., home of Fuller Brush, Avard Fuller started out to be an aeronautical engineer, decided in 1937 to join his father's company. He has been a door-to-door brush salesman...
Frequently the authors hold up a little flag bearing the legend: "See, we can underestimate dangers and be optimistic, too." But recurrently they hark back to a theme which Douglass Cater recorded as part of a 1946 address by Joseph Alsop to the Signet Society. At that time, "the older member of the partnership" as he styles himself, compared the nations of the West to Leonidas' troops at Thermopylae and suggested that they "comb their golden hair in the sunlight and prepare to die bravely." A little bit of this sort of Everett Dirksen brand eloquence goes an awfully long...
...there are two prongs to the dilemma. Most of the older professors have dominated their respective departments for decades, and the University feels that the younger man ought to have a chance, too. Thus, while retirement may be sometimes unfair to the older man, retention could certainly hamper the career of the rising young scholar...
Harmony was Raphael's blessing, both in himself and in his art. The golden boy at the Vatican while still in his 20s, he was loved even by the older painters he displaced and adored by those who came after. Freeing of St. Peter from Prison, completed for Leo X in 1514, surrounds the top of a window overlooking a Vatican garden, and, until the window was blocked off (see cut), the picture looked dark by contrast with the light flooding in. Raphael took advantage of this apparent difficulty by making the saving angel the picture's chief...
...Mine Enemy Grows Older, King...