Word: septuagenarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...climbs into a mid-deck seat on the shuttle Discovery and prepares to rocket into space for a nine-day mission, he'll face a real, if remote, chance that the craft could spin out before it reaches space and wind up in the drink. If it does, the septuagenarian Senator will need all the survival hardware...
...very long ago, people admonished one another to act their age. But what can that mean today, when octogenarians serve in the Peace Corps, centenarians travel and septuagenarian former Presidents jump out of planes? Or when men and women in their 50s and 60s launch new careers and rightly feel that youth--like the Star Wars Force--is still with them? "In the long run," economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, "we are all dead." But that long run is growing longer all the time. Thomas Wyatt offers a better motto for Americans as he writes his novel and raises...
HELEN LANE, amateur predictor Forecast: One of the "worst" winters in years for Tennessee. Perhaps 10 heavy snows. Methodology: Cumberland Plateau fogs. Following a family tradition that goes back generations, the septuagenarian counts the number of heavy, early-morning fogs in August...
John King from the Associated Press said the image of Dole, a septuagenarian, running against Clinton, who represents the transition from old to new Democrat, was too strange for voters...
...pension check of $6,650 to the elderly residents. "I was thinking about next year, how great it would be to have this Party in the White House," said the GOP presidential nominee. If elected in November, Dole would be the oldest first-term President ever. And yet: the septuagenarian has lower cholesterol and blood pressure levels than the soon-to-be 50-year-old Bill Clinton. Still, to counter perceptions to the contrary, Dole said last week that he would select a young and healthy running mate: "I'm not naming any names, but there are people out there...