Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KHRUCHCHEV looked tired; he was also older-looking than I had expected, and softer and shorter-looking. Perhaps this was only because for weeks his picture had been gazing out over me from hundreds of Soviet walls, and in these tinted official photographs, two or three times lifesize, his features are planed off and hardened. He was wearing a well-cut suit, dark blue verging on black, a soft white shirt with French cuffs, and a light grey tie. He placed the young interpreter from the Foreign Ministry at the head of the long, green baize conference table, and himself...
...Critic Alain Jouffroy: "Paris once was a volcano. It is now gradually turning into a big circus." Although there are many new performers in that circus, the best acts are the work of an older generation...
...great ones ever accomplished so much so early," says Hans Kmoch, secretary of the Manhattan Chess Club, where Bobby practices. The son of parents who were divorced when he was two, Bobby grew up under his mother's wing, learned the moves of chess from his older sister at the age of six. By the time he was nine, he played day and night, studied every chess book and magazine he could get his eager hands on. He was already beating most adults he could cajole into a game...
...rate young dancers in last week's production (including Julia May Scott, daughter of an American Negro and a Russian mother) were unknown to the West. They were drawn from the corps de ballet on the theory that they would be less hidebound by classical technique than the older dancers (an exception: famed Soloist Maya Plisetskaya, dancing the courtesan Aegina). Lavishly supported by the government, the Bolshoi currently has some 250 regular dancers and mimes, including what is probably the most brilliant collection of soloists in the world...
...influenza and pneumonia (meaning, mostly, pneumonia as influenza's aftermath). In Dallas the rate was 150% above normal, in New York City 85% and Chicago 75%. Yet, unlike last fall, there was no reported increase in absenteeism from work. Probable answer: the present wave is hitting mostly older people who no longer work, are particularly vulnerable to flu and pneumonia...