Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would you run for the presidency?" Vargas squirmed. He twisted a box of matches around in his hands. He looked out the door. Finally he said: "The Brazilian people are suffering, particularly the workers. The crisis, in time, may pass." And then, as an afterthought: "Perhaps they need a younger man than I." In short, Getulio Vargas did not answer the question as bluntly as the posters...
Says wife Doris: "It amuses Pierre to see younger conductors eye him appraisingly, saying to themselves, 'When is that old bozo going to give up?' But, he says, 'I shall conduct till I'm 90. I shall die holding a baton.' " Says Pierre: "I didn't say 90. I said...
...made him stand up for the first time ("When I was a boy I was a coward, and bitterly ashamed of it") and passionately demand respect-not only for himself but for his more humble schoolfellows. Humiliation made him a living example of his thesis that "the professional, penniless younger son classes are the revolutionary element in society: the proletariat is the conservative...
Hormones have proved a failure in making older people feel younger, reported Pharmacologist Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, vice president of the University of Texas Medical Branch. But there is some hope, he said, in experimental work on vitamins as a means of making oldsters feel at least a little spryer. There seems no possibility of learning how to keep the heart, blood vessels and kidneys in first-class working condition deep into old age. But, asked Dr. Leake: "Do any of us want to? ... Will it not be possible for us some day to realize that death is a part...
...another thing, when Lt. Joseph Cable sings "Younger Than Springtime" to the native girl Liat, the show becomes momentarily ordinary. The song is pretty enough--Bing Crosby and others will probably let us hear a great deal of it during the next few months--but it seems to exist chiefly because of its prettiness. The romance between Cable and Liat, which is handled quite remarkably up to the moment Cable begins to sing, loses a lot of its intensity by being interrupted for such a number. Perhaps the fault is more the singer's than the song's; William Tabbert...