Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better Limelights. Colored floodlights (in red, blue, green, yellow, blue-white, pink) have been developed by General Electric, are weatherproof, give off more light, operate on less power (100 watts v. 150 in older lamps). Price...
...great respect for Lodge, has insisted that he attend Cabinet meetings. But the nomination of Cabot Lodge, for all his obvious abilities, would almost certainly invite trouble in the Senate, where oldtimers still remember the impetuous, sometimes undependable ways of his youthful days as a Senator-even though an older and more considerate U.N. ambassador has long since mended the ways...
...Lasso, 53, onetime University of California fullback, who won the presidency in 1948. The secret ingredient is democracy, both of thought and action. Coupled with the brains to take advantage of Ecuador's rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador built 1,600 miles of road. United Fruit opened a 7,000-acre plantation. Poor settlers from...
...School at that time and both Leo Stein and his sister impressed me as bright young Freshmen with independent and a little erratic notions--notions, of course, which they expressed much more modestly and pressed less strenuously upon older people than they did habitually later...
Gertrude's college days were broken up by summer holidays in Europe. Sometimes she went with Leo, sometimes with friends. By this time, Gertrude travelled on her own and had become completely independent. To a large extent, this happened because her older brother and guardian, Mike, got married. Sister-in-law Sarah Solomons feared that openmindedness which made Gertrude say, "The trouble with you girls from Smith is raw virginity...