Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday night's contest, its outcome would seem to depend upon the health of sophomore sensation Bob Mlkvy, the younger brother of the famed "Owl without a vowel," Bill. Mlkvy broke his left leg in a November practice, and is just beginning to return to form...
...Human Scratch-Pad" and dermographia [extreme sensitivity of the skin-Jan. 19]: as a long sufferer of this complaint, I thought you might be interested in knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
...years passed, more and more pallid clerks and exhausted executives began taking Murata's advice by exercising their navels twice a day. The master himself, who looks 15 years younger than he is, climbed down into coal mines to spread the word. He spoke over the radio, taught the maids in the hotels he stayed at how to use their navels while cleaning and scrubbing.*His crusade got results. Executives found themselves less tense, employees more eager, and the phrase "Your navel isn't in it" is now a part of the Japanese language. Today 160 firms...
...19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with her to break the cycle of evil for the sake of her two children, and with the reasoning of utter despair kills the younger child to save a home for the elder...
Married. Raúl Castro, 27, younger brother and top lieutenant of Cuban Hero Fidel; and Vilma Espin Guillois, 28, sometime (1955-56) student of chemical engineering at M.I.T. and underground organizer in Cuba's revolution; in Santiago, Cuba (see THE HEMISPHERE...