Word: spryest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the diversity of her interests, Mead remained a working anthropologist to the end. One of the world's spryest septuagenarians, she had long kept a schedule that would have left most younger people exhausted. But in recent years Mead, who had survived malaria, three marriages, several miscarriages and years of native foods, found her health failing. "I know I can't live forever," she often said. "I'm just not ready...
Robinson gets more solo opportunities than is usual for the trombonist, perhaps because, though over 80 years old, he is the spryest of the group. He was alive when Buddy Bolden formed the first real jazz band, back around 1895, with 16-year-old Bunk Johnson as second cornet. Johnson took over the band after Bolden's health failed, and some years later Robinson played with...