Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doesn't the older generation stop worrying about us "teenage rebels" and start cleaning up its own backyard? I just got through watching a Senate investigation committee questioning Dave Beck, and it really turned my stomach. This clown is making a farce out of the committee, the Government and the American public. How in the world did a man like Dave Beck ever get in the position of president of the Teamsters in the first place...
...twice as old as his brother Sam, who is half as old as his sister Anne, who is five years older than her brotherJim. Who are the twins...
...that clings with hooks and suckers to the host's intestine. Below the head is a short neck that grows continually and differentiates into segments that become filled with eggs and sperm as they mature. The younger segments are chiefly male, and their sperm fertilizes eggs released by older segments farther downstream. A single worm can do the whole job and sometimes produces several billion eggs in its lifetime...
...supports 15,000 Mennonites who live in 54 campos, small communities of 40 or 50 families. In some ways the Chihuahua settlers are less determinedly orthodox than the Amish of Pennsylvania. The men wear ordinary straw hats, overalls and work shoes, and the women wear colored homespun (only the older women cling to the black dress). Buttons and zippers are not considered works of the Devil, nails are used in construction, and there are no hex signs on the barns. The men may drink a limited amount on Sunday afternoons. But occasional defectors-young men who tire of the life...
...solve the problem, some companies are turning to outside contractors who are willing to dip into the big pool of older women that regular employers neglect. Last year, for example, Milwaukee's Manpower. Inc., which has 90 branches in the U.S. and abroad, placed 50,000 such women (average age: 42) in temporary jobs, even used a retired 72-year-old secretary in Boston. Another line of attack is through increasing office mechanization. Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. has recently set up a highly mechanized office in Harrison, N.Y., in which executives can dictate to 24 recording machines...