Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the close but bitterly divisive 1968 campaign behind him, Humphrey probably could not run for the presidency again without reducing the party to a shambles, splitting off the younger, activist wings that barely tolerated him last year. ∙EDMUND MUSKIE. In the first six months of this year, Muskie crisscrossed the nation on lecture tours that built his popularity among both regular and irregular Democrats. Last week he said he will resume his travels in the fall. In some ways, he is the most promising Democratic prospect-and doubtless the one who benefits most from Kennedy's troubles...
...Kennedy keeps turning the conversation away from her own family's grief to that of Mary Jo Kopechne's parents. Their agony reminds her of the Euripides tragedy, The Trojan Women. "It is fundamentally unnatural for an older person to have to bury a younger one," she explains...
Obviously, a man who can vanquish cancer is indestructible. Still, even if he was immortal, he wasn't getting any younger. There was catching up to do. At a time when other men start to think about bifocals and social security, Wayne began to learn his lines for The Sons of Katie Elder, a typically nuance-free Wayne western about four lusty, brawling brothers. But that was just for loot. Now that he was back on his feet, some things were griping him. The moral backslide, for one. He stumped for his friends Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. "I said...
There is little such fear on the part of younger people. They are members of the confident generation, which has known only good times. Many investors are heeding brokers' advice to hold on and ride out the difficult period. "Hell, I've got no choice," says an Akron rubber-company executive who early this year sold all his previous holdings and put the proceeds into Nuclear Corporation of America at 5 and Aero-Flow Dynamics at 14. Last week Nuclear sold as low as 41 and Aero-Flow dipped under 12. Says the executive...
...help trap the poacher because he believes that one man's guilt is inconsequential compared with the monstrous shame of modern times, with its "computers ticking, tapes and circuits and warheads, detonators, deaths, millions of deaths." Jack Kendriks, chief of the fire fighters, who at 39 feels that younger, better-educated men are catching up on him, helps Replogle escape with his poached meat, in a humanistic act of generosity from one defeated man to another...