Word: oldest
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...third place down it is. "You want to grab every moment and enjoy it fully," says Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player of 23." Yet the joint proprietors of women's tennis, sharers of the past 15 grand-slam events going back to 1981, are the oldest members of the top ten. Coming to their fifth final at Wimbledon, Navratilova, 28, and Evert Lloyd, 30, had met 65 times over twelve years and stood one victory apart. The most enduring rivals in sports, they represent a conflict more fascinating than any tennis match...
...recent years, Cabot House, the oldest of the Quad Houses, has been plagued by leaky roofs, sewerage problems, and faulty electrical systems The problems came to a head last October when a second floor toilet backed-up and exploded, flooding two floors in Briggs Hall
...tend to regard the immigrants as uninvited guests at a meager meal. Many believe the newcomers' gains come at the expense of blacks and that a "racist" system benefits the immigrants. Adding to the bitterness is the black perception that America's newest citizens are embracing one of its oldest traits, racial prejudice. Comedian Richard Pryor does a routine depicting a group of Indochinese boat people taking part in their first citizenship class. Lesson No. 1: the correct pronunciation of the word nigger...
...answer, in part at least, is that the black experience in America has been unique. No other people came to America in chains. Unlike other groups that experienced spasms of prejudice that lasted a few decades, blacks have faced generations of racism. Indeed, they are among the oldest and newest Americans: old because they have lived in the U.S. since the time the nation was just an idea; new because it has been only in the past 20 years that they have become truly enfranchised citizens. Says Economist Thomas Sowell: "The race as a whole has moved from utter destitution...
...greeting them with a mixture of sympathy and anxiety (lightly flavored with hypocrisy), Americans express one of their oldest national traditions. Thomas Jefferson, who proclaimed it self-evident that all men are created equal, felt considerable doubts about whether they were all equally well suited to be U.S. citizens. He complained of "the unbounded licentiousness" some of the newcomers displayed, and he warned that they would turn the nation into "a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass." This at a time when the U.S. population was only 2 million, and still 80% from the British Isles...