Word: older
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People I don't even know are still congratulating me for the B.C. game," Jellison said recently. "I hate to live in the past but that was one of my biggest thrills here. The only thing that comes even close is when my older brother flew out to see me play in the freshmen game against Yale." If he had never played sports again--which is not the case since he is now the star of the Leverett House basketball team--Jellison would still have plenty of good memories to look back on, including an impressive high school career...
...Power that some existing nukes may be unable to meet the new safety rules and therefore may have to reduce their generating output. He also disclosed that the NRC is considering ordering a shutdown of some plants now operating in heavily populated areas. Said Hendrie: "In some of the older sites, the population density is such that evacuation might not be entirely successful in the worst kinds of accidents." He refused to specify which plants he had in mind, but two possibilities are the ones at Indian Point, 36 miles north of New York City, and Zion, Ill., 41 miles...
...admitted, little by little, to the executive establishment. Whitman knows because when she meets groups of bankers, she sees more and more women junior executives, poised for that big leap up to higher management. But almost all are age 32 or 33 or younger-and practically none are older...
...though the crowd remained inattentive through most of the remarks, it did stop to give Horace Bright, Alec's older brother and a major force behind the new rink, a standing ovation...
...collection: "There are rules for old men who are in love with young girls, all the stricter when the young girls are in love with them. It has to be played as a game." Love, of course, is never a game, especially in a December-May romance where the older party keeps one eye on the clock and the younger does not have to. In addition, real suspicions are too easily come...