Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Long Island fairytale is all about the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) who grows up with a case of the loves for the millionaire boss' younger son, David Larrabee (William Holden). He doesn't know she exists, but when Audrey returns from an hilarious interlude at a Parisian cooking school, sporting a tight hairdo and chic black dress, Holden wakes up and starts requiting...
...news of the defeat finally reached Vientiane, something like panic seized the otiose Laotian government. Crown Prince Savang Vat-hana, 52, was speedily invested as Regent of Laos, taking over from his 74-year-old father, King Sisavong Vong, who abdicated because he felt the country needed a younger and more energetic chief of state. At the risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that...
...Palooka, for the end of October. Soon afterward, Leff meant to have Joe retire from the ring as undefeated champion, plunge into youth work and life as a family man. Only when boxing-world conditions "took a turn for the better" did Leff intend to bring Joe's younger brother Steve along as the next heavyweight champion...
Better Than Father. Like most pioneers in psychoanalysis, Jones claims uncanny recollection of earliest childhood. He was only three, he says, when he decided to become a physician. This was when the village doctor delivered his younger sister: "It was plain to me that he was a very exalted person who could bring the results of my father's misdeeds to a happy issue. From that moment, since a doctor was superior even to a father, I resolved to become one." A precocious youth, he made it at 21, emulated his doctor-idol figure by delivering a thousand babies...
Many educators would like to see the cutoff point raised from the current U.S. average of 5 years 9 months to about 5 years 11 months. They explain that the younger the child the less his chances of adjusting to first-grade work; early failure at the blackboard can induce a defeatist attitude that endures for years. Physically as well as mentally, say the educators, waiting is wise. Studies have shown that four out of five children are still normally farsighted at the age of six, are handicapped in reading until about six months later. But these arguments...