Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill is the descendant of great nobles. Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, a quarter-century younger, is the descendant of Welsh coal miners. Both have a look of pink cherubic majesty; both are enormously effective speakers. In the four years of the Labor government Bevan and Churchill, who hate each other, had not been directly opposed as principals in a Commons debate...
...once let his heavy Teutonic eyes wander sheeplike in the direction of a lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later, when George's younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without first asking the consent...
...career. But even most career girls nag their married professors to find out how a career can be combined with marriage. If the marriage rate of the past is any indication, eight out of ten will become wives. Moreover, as far as their deans can see, they are marrying younger than before...
Like many a younger child, the University of California at Los Angeles has long been jealous of its big sister at Berkeley, the University of California. Though U.C.L.A. has sprouted into something of an Amazon itself (present enrollment: 14,983), its graduates think it has sometimes been treated like a gangling adolescent. One graduate gripe: though Berkeley has had a law school for years, U.C.L.A. had none...
Resort hotels were booked solid by a younger generation to whom Rosh Hashana seemed little more than a two-day vacation. But in some Orthodox homes men received fish heads to symbolize their position as heads of families and honey was spread on bread to symbolize the coming of a sweet and fruitful year. Only in Jerusalem was there mourning-among the pious who could not hold their traditional services at the ancient Wailing Wall in the Arab-held Old City...