Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Burns had been notably casual in his attitude toward Jacksonville's blooming racial conflict, his action infuriated the city's younger Negroes. Explained Ernest Lent, executive director of Jacksonville's Human Relations Council, later: "The leaders kept their anger under control, but the young people couldn't help but react. For a lot of them, of course, this was just an excuse to raise hell...
When Edward Heath served as a parliamentary whip under Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Tories squeaked through a vote by a particularly thin margin, the old man comforted the younger: "In the House of Commons, one vote is enough." Last week Ted Heath, now President of the Board of Trade, had the uncomfortable opportunity to test that axiom. The Tories, who nowadays can usually muster a majority of 80 votes or so, just barely managed to survive a vote by the wafer-thin margin...
Erler's party also wants "new bonds between younger intellectuals and political life in Germany," a new orientation for city planning, an adjustment of agriculture to growing competition in the Common Market, and an intensified public health policy...
...ahead of the record levels of 1963, when they reached $504 million. A Pennsylvania farm boy who was once a reporter for the Harrisburg Patriot, Cunningham started in a Kresge stock room 36 years ago, became chief executive in 1959. He promptly replaced all its vice presidents with younger men, but kept up the firm's traditions: no smoking or coffee drinking in the offices, men separated from women in the company cafeterias. On weekends, Cunningham likes to pop into K-Marts unannounced. While he chats with managers, his wife pushes a shopping cart-thus faithfully reinvesting some...
...shattered by the death of a woman he has never met. After a lonely, long-drawn adolescence, Conrad becomes an exceptionally promising young executive in a textile firm, and he marries the daughter of one of its owners. Then he sees a portrait of his wife's beautiful younger sister and hears the story of her apparent murder, eight years earlier, in a locked, private compartment of a Stuttgart-bound express. Several suspects were questioned, but no arrest had ever been made...