Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having personally recruited 700 Free Officers, he led the army revolt overthrowing Farouk, and wielded power through an older, pipe-smoking front man, General Mohammed Naguib, who is now under house arrest. That year Dwight Eisenhower was elected President of the U.S., and Mossadegh, having nationalized Iran's oil, was driving Iran to bankruptcy...
...ways-some back to the lungs, some out through the arteries. Kent also had his aorta and pulmonary artery transposed and had a narrowed valve leading from heart to lungs. With this miserably inefficient arrangement, the boy's heart was overworked, was doomed to fail when he grew older...
...lion as his symbol, Jones injected a cubbish mood by teaching the boys to sing such rousing tunes as the official Roar, Lion, Roar at almost any meal. Though many a Rotarian and no few Kiwanians would continue to frown down upon lively Lions, the Jones ideas infected the older clubs (the Kiwanis motto has been changed from "We Trade" to "We Build"), and the Lions thrived first in the U.S., then in Canada, Latin America and Europe...
Especially valuable is kanamycin's effectiveness against strains of microbes, notably Staphylococcus aureus, that are resistant to the older antibiotics and have caused terrifying epidemics in many U.S. hospitals. Kanamycin got its acid test in such an outbreak in Houston (TIME, March 31): of 36 infants who got it, 28 recovered, including eleven who had been considered hopeless cases...
...markdowns are so extreme that "you can now buy a refrigerator, washer, dishwasher for fewer actual dollars than you could ten years ago-and that's including inflation." There has been some trimming in other areas. Retailers with excess stocks of room air-conditioners cut prices on older models as much as 25% ; Sears, Roebuck and Co. cut its power tools as much as 30%; cotton mills chopped 5% from their prices; and Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. reduced prices on their major line of tube-type tires...