Word: septuagenarian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news of McCain's Gonzales announcement spread, reporters grumbled about being scooped by the wily septuagenarian. At first, McCain's staff assured them that the Senator had not intended his remarks to King to get out so soon. Then they told us they can't keep McCain from going off script, though, as one aide said, "I understand...
...stretch himself out.”Bok attributes his modest agenda to both his status as an interim president and the fact that he is 15 years older than he was when he left Mass. Hall.Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, a fellow septuagenarian, said that Bok actually sets an example for his younger peers.“Just by his example, our president makes us all feel younger and more sprightly,” said Knowles. “He’s just the same warm friend with the formidable intellect that I first meet...
...years of evading responsibility, the Japanese government issued a statement officially acknowledging the army's role - direct or indirect - in the forced prostitution. The reaction across Asia to Abe's remarks was instant and angry, with South Korea's foreign minister calling on Japan to "face the truth," while septuagenarian former sex slaves in the Philippines furiously denounced Abe as a liar...
Harvard students crammed into a House common room to solicit sex tips from a septuagenarian last night. The speaker was famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth, who was hosting a question-and-answer session in Cabot House. Her topics ranged from bawdy to serious—from the definition of oral sex and myths about masturbation on the one hand, to contraception, abortion, and homosexuality on the other. In her opening remarks, Dr. Ruth set out to expose the truth behind rumors about human sexuality. “The size of the penis,” she said...
...months before the start of the war, I visited a small village on the Iraqi border with Kuwait. The local elder, a spry septuagenarian known as Abu Mohammed, was keenly aware that when the fighting began, his small watermelon farm might be the first piece of Iraqi territory trampled by American tanks. As he cleaned his ancient AK-47, Abu Mohammed admitted that it would be no defense against the world's most powerful military machine. When I asked if he was frightened, he nodded, saying, "Not of the Americans, but of Saddam. If I don't stand and fight...