Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General Richard Allerup, a rugged professional who likes to say that he is tough enough to be a platoon sergeant in the U.S. Marines. General Allerup neither blustered nor threatened. "I'm not talking to you as a general," he said, "but as an older, more experienced man." His order: "Get on to those trucks and get home right away." When one of the rebels demurred, the general grabbed him and tossed him bodily into a patrol car. The rest meekly obeyed orders...
...technique of "water spreading" is an old story in Wyoming, where French comes from, and is often used to improve the grazing for cattle and sheep. It is even older in the Middle East, where it was used sporadically thousands of years ago. For reasons more social than technical, it has died out. Point Four experts estimate that vast areas of desert can be made productive by reviving the technique. They are now trying to develop camel-drawn earthmovers so that the Arabs can do their own water spreading at almost no cost except labor...
...college. When his father died he went home to North Carolina, to take care of the plantation and his spinster aunts. As a result, he also gave up the girl who might have married him as a lawyer but not as a farmer. In his loneliness, Ed married an older woman who could not give him a child. When she died he got married again, this time to a world-worn divorcee with a small...
...older woman meeting a younger one sees an image of her own lost youth, a little boy blurts out the awkward truth that a tableful of grownups has been avoiding, a house decays, a love dies, a ritual is born. Using the subtlest of baits, Author Pierce comes away with the novelist's prize catch, a bit of life at the end of almost every line...
Hauers described the insurance business as a "steady, practically depression free business" which needs agents to replace older...