Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious mass murder of Naziism. But there were other victims whose "crimes" were individual and matters of conscience. Here, 57 such victims, most of them German Christians, speak their last from Hitler's charnel houses; their words blend into a vox humana whose organ tone speaks of things older than man's inhumanity...
Molotov had long ago read the future. "Gentlemen, we are getting older," he told a group of diplomats at Vienna last year. "Don't you think it's time we gave way to younger men?" The man who stepped into the job of Soviet Foreign Minister was Dmitry Shepilov (see box), 16 years younger than Molotov, a newcomer to top party ranks...
After ten years of nationhood, the Republic of Italy last week voted in numbers that might shame older democracies. On a leisurely, balmy Sunday, nearly 24 million Italians, 91.1% of the electorate, trooped to the polls to vote for mayors and councilmen in Italy's 7,143 communes. From a welter of confused and overlapping statistics emerged one clear fact: the Christian Democratic party, generally supposed to have been losing ground with the voters, is still the choice of more Italians than any other party, and has actually picked up a few percentage points since...
...home, young Barzun seemed destined for a scholar's career. He was allowed to read whatever books he could reach in his father's library, and when his school decided to try to solve the World War 1 teacher shortage by using the famous Lancaster system (employing older pupils to teach the younger ones), nine-year-old Jacques got a crack at his first class. "All I remember about it," says he, "is that it had to do with arithmetic and that the room seemed filled with thousands of very small children in black aprons ... It served, however...
...cautious about a broad indictment of colonialism. "I sometimes wonder whether these dreams of intimacy with what we regard as the humble and oppressed peoples of the earth do not represent a form of rebellion against the older European peoples ... in order to prove to ourselves the reality of our maturity and the finality of our liberation from the apron strings of old Europe...