Word: septuagenarian
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...insult me," said the septuagenarian President of the onetime Chamber of Deputies, vigorous in his resistance, in the growing resistance of France. "You can tell your masters that I am not obliged to take any engagements. I have only one thought, to serve France. How, does not concern you. You have the police and force, and you can use them...
Keeper of the Dream. The invitations to consider unification were issued through Salvador Mendieta, rector (until his resignation last week) of Central University at Managua, Nicaragua. For 40 years septuagenarian Mendieta has kept Morazán's dream alive in the minds of students. Back of Mendieta was the sponsorship of Nicaragua's dictatorlet, genial President General Anastasio Somoza...
...news for France, there was one glimmer of hope in it. The more Vichy succumbs to Germany, the more tenuous becomes its hold on the man charged with holding its empire together: General Maxime Weygand. Ever since October 1940, when he quit France for the North African command, wiry Septuagenarian Weygand has kept observers guessing. Repeatedly he has been accused of coolness to Vichy, repeatedly he has sounded off in ringing statements of loyalty. Three times the Germans have tried to force his removal from command of the most potent remnant of the once mighty armies of the French Republic...
Same day Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace was publicized as second-highest-paid U.S. executive, fiery septuagenarian Spinster Zara du Pont, munitions family maverick and Bethlehem stockholder, sued him, the corporation and 17 other Bethlehem officers and directors for $1,000,000, charging wasteful expenditures of that amount for labor-baiting...
...other two belonged to Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Once more the world waited with bated breath for news of their decision - but that decision meant far more than war or peace in the time of a septuagenarian. This week the men at the round table in Munich intended to settle Europe's destiny until times unforeseeable...