Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the University hopes to find room in the new Houses (and subsequently in the older ones as they are reduced in size) for a respectable percentage of the graduates, the demands of space make it impossible to provide more than a very small number of suites for married students...
...seemed to give the impression in your May 20 issue that "the Old Guard" brand of Republicanism is maintained by an older, outdated type of leader and voter. When I am released from the Army, I hope to return to teaching and live this conservative way of life...
...most daring assassination yet achieved by the Algerians in their promised campaign to "carry the war to France itself." Most of the killings take place in the wretched Algerian quarters of French cities, where followers of the Cairo-backed National Liberation Front (FLN) fight Messali Hadj's older Algerian National Movement (MNA), and each terrorize fellow Algerians for contributing to the other. Chekkal's assassin, an unemployed plumber named Mohammed ben Sadok, admitted that he had been selected by the FLN for the honor of killing Chekkal...
...idea of church rule by bishops really provokes the independent Scots. The Economist spelled out their indignation: "In the real split between Low Church and Anglican Church attitudes-the pomp and circumstance which Anglicans regard as a display of beauty for the greater glory of God, and which older Presbyterians regard as near-idolatry and even younger ones regard as play-acting-the bishop in his robes has long been one of the most potent symbols. The ordinary Scot will find it surprisingly difficult to get himself, let alone his grandfather, to swallow this." Equally hard to choke down...
...telling the campaign flourish from the mortal insult. He took everything with deadly seriousness, spent sleepless nights after his heroes were attacked, blazingly denounced Jeff's enemies to audiences of two or three farmboys. Even Ike McClellan says: "I should have held off until John was a little older and could understand that our opponents didn't really mean what they said...