Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just 18 months since the pillars of New York's Third Avenue "El" were torn down and replaced by a system of greenstuff, which a few of the older or more traveled natives claimed to be able to identify as trees. Before this alarming change, Third Avenue clearly was New York's most hardened artery, and its mile or two in midtown Manhattan is still largely given over to antique stores and saloons, the real antiques being the saloons. In these is preserved a way of life that belongs more to a village than a metropolis...
...older nations the inflationary pattern varies. In Australia, also trying to expand too far too fast, prices have doubled since World War II, while wages have risen 160%. The government, in alarm, finally began to choke back on credit, raise taxes and cut down on public spending. Not even conservative, thrifty Denmark has escaped inflation. Denmark has a per capita income of $807, above average for Europe. Recently the Danes discovered that they were living too well. Lulled by the eager world market for their dairy products, bacon, beer, machinery and ships, they let wages, prices and production costs rise...
...occupational therapy following her recent near-fatal auto accident. Author Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile showed a certain flair and skill, gave many readers the intriguing sensation of observing precocious children playing grown-up games. In Those Without Shadows, the kids are a little older and they are no longer saying bonjour to sadness; in the words of a current U.S. pop tune, they are shouting "Hello, Emptiness...
...FitzGeralds made an appeal for help in locating land to those "wishing to preserve beauty, to those paying high taxes on unused land and unused space beside or in back of their homes, and to those people who might wish to have older neighbors of maturity and discretion...
Since Swedish women began seriously agitating for admission to the ministry in 1919, the core of opposition has been the older generation of clergymen who take literally Biblical injunctions against female equality, such as St. Paul's in the first Epistle to the Corinthians: "Let your women-keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience . . .'' Women Theologians? Seeking to avoid an open split between the old guard and the church's young, liberal pastors, ailing Archbishop Yngve Brilioth, primate of the state...