Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since 1950, the number of aged people (65 or older) increased 18.3% to 14.4 million...
...parking lot will someday burrow underneath the Common, the middle mostly gathers years. When the Museum of Natural History left its ancient quarters by Berkeley Street, the building wasn't destroyed as it should have been; Bonwit-Teller's came, with curtains, and the buildings looks even older yet. Lacking high buildings, long vistas, and straight or numbered streets, Boston boasts cow tunnels along with as dirty a jail and as complicated a city government as can be found...
...Deal. The Maulas who inhabit Monsarrat's island are a grave, long-winded, humorless people, including urbanized zoot-suiters down at the port and taboo-ridden jungle men up north. The older Maulas are courteous and profoundly conservative-content with the hope that their chief will one day lead them to a seat in the commodious kraal of the British Commonwealth. The chief is 22-year-old Dinamaula; seven years of English schools, an Oxford law degree and the flattering attention of progressive girls...
...grew older and somewhat warmer, dates began to arrive by train and trickled from local inns, and one more adventurous couple braved the winds and roads to peddle a bicycle built for two about the campus...
...most honored if they asked me," said Stevenson, "but they haven't." Stevenson, 56, said he believed he was "at least ten years older" than the man Princeton would want for the position...