Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boyish face and unfurrowed brow belie a lifetime intertwined with the travails of his country. Thieu, whose name means "one who ascends," was born in the village of Ninh Chu on the South China Sea. His father was a farmer and fisherman, but his brother Hieu, 16 years his senior and now his Ambassador to Rome, was a Paristrained lawyer and the family's chief meal ticket. It was Hieu who sent Thieu to school in Saigon and Hué. Thieu had just finished high school when World War II began and the Japanese came. His first contact with...
...World War II. Even for a man of Wilson's stubborn courage, it was a moment of daring. By personally assuming control of the Department of Economic Affairs, Wilson not only gave himself the toughest job in Britain but gambled his political future on victory where two senior ministers have failed. "If he is only 75% successful," commented London's Daily Mirror, "he will go down in history as a great Prime Minister. If he fails, history will regard him as one of the biggest flops who ever lived in No. 10 Downing Street...
...Senior Citizen. Thereafter, Ehrenburg was as ardent an advocate of greater freedom of expression within the Soviet Union as he had been an acquiescent promoter of Stalin. In one of the final chapters of his diffuse six-volume memoirs he even backtracked: the voice of Stalin he had once heard became ominous "noises on the stairs"-meaning the approach of the secret police. "If he just read the list of all his victims," he said of the old dictator, "he would not have been able to do anything else...
Khrushchev found Ehrenburg a little too outspoken and said so; but Ehrenburg, now a secure senior citizen of the Soviet literary establishment, with a five-room luxury apartment in Moscow filled with modern French art, paid no heed. Ehrenburg always insisted he had not bought his immunity under Stalin. "I lived in an era when the fate of man resembled not so much a chess game as a lottery," he said. Last week, at the age of 76, the last lottery brought down the professional survivor: he died of a heart attack in Moscow...
...prison farm for adolescents. There, status is based on ability to humiliate weaker kids by sexual assault. A buddy warns Aaron: "They beat 'em up first, and then gang bang 'em, man! Make queens of 'em forever." Aaron is duly raped by a giant Negro senior citizen of this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best pal as well as his persecutor. But he no longer cares; he would rather earn kingly status, even if the price...