Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only can the international caliber of this year's Open trace its origins to that solemn declaration of 1861, but it was further in keeping with the Open's oldest traditions that the site for this year's contest was Royal Birkdale...
...Open to its exalted present day position as the major golf championship that is truly "open to all the world." Last week's event won by America's top pro of the next generation followed by an unvaunted Spaniard once again demonstrated the universal appeal of the world's oldest Open...
...American electorate is itself "non-ideological." The foregoing opinion has the virtue of being comfortable: it tells people like my father, a liberal man who's voted for Roosevelt four times, Trumanonce, Stevenson twice. Kennedy, Johnson and Humphrey (and wishes he'd voted for McGovern) that the world's oldest, continuous political party is still pretty much the same. Not too much will be different with Jimmy Carter as president and the Democrats retaining their nearly two-thirds congressional majority, the experts imply...
...washing dishes for $75 a week, paid his sister $10 for room and board, and saved the rest. In three years he had enough to send for Eloina, and she got a job as a sewing-machine operator. In another three years they sent for their four oldest children; the two others followed in 1970, and two others were
...oldest brother went to California as a wetback in 1966. Now he is married to a gringa, and he says they can't throw him back over the border, not now. He speaks English, he has a big house?well, bigger than anything in this village?and a car and a refrigerator, and his children go to a school where he doesn't have...