Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, bright, shiny-eyed Abdel Rasik Hefny, 15, had seen his thoughtful gesture blossom amazingly. An orphan, and sole support of a younger brother, Abdel was earning 75? a day on good days. He is now a delighted student at one of suburban Cairo's finest private schools; he is aiming for a Swiss university and perhaps medical school. He is well on the way to realizing a dream that seemed fantastic last year: "To become an educated man and help my people...
Boot-Faced Aunts. Among the most significant results of the elections was the fact that the Labor Party had lost much of its appeal to youth. Said London's Tory Daily Telegraph: "The younger generation regards the Socialists either as strangers or as a collection of austere, button-booted, boot-faced, half-fossilized aunts, embittered by grim repressions and memories of something nasty seen down in the coal mine." The Mirror, a shrill echo of Labor Party slogans, plainly shared in Labor's loss of appeal to youth...
...marry three times, and each union went out the window along with his roving eye. His taste for young flesh led to three statutory rape scandals, plus a juicy paternity suit-but the older he got, the more he seemed a cardboard sinner. Finally a bloated travesty of his younger self, he was typecast in his last three films as a drunk, and his forthcoming autobiography is called My Wicked, Wicked Ways...
...started in Madrid, but nobody seemed to mind. One of the 200 Jews who crowded the third-floor hall off Madrid's Gran Via explained: "We've waited 467 years for this day. A few more minutes won't hurt." At last the congregation, led by younger members bearing the Torah, began the solemn march, chanting the ancient Hebrew prayer: "Praised be the Lord, for He is good and His mercy endureth forever." Then the congregation president lit the "eternal light" (an electric bulb). Occasion: dedication of Madrid's first regular synagogue since 1492, when King...
...militant invasion of hell. It has been widely reproduced. The second-Flemish Proverbs-may well be Brueghel's earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand was firm enough to form such airy medallions of understanding...