Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some of the younger staffers in Britain's Moscow embassy, smooth, charming Sigmund Mikhailski was living proof that a Communist needn't be a cad. An interpreter, smiling Sig was hired in 1954 and soon made himself a regular Man Friday around the chancery offices on Sofiiskaya quay. When no one else could get Bolshoi ballet tickets, Sig did. He was equally skillful at producing hard-to-get goodies, or black-marketing their clothes or Western currency for a handsome profit. He always went out of his way to help the lonely ones, showed them the sights, even...
...Soviet spy. After all, local help in Moscow must be hired from U.P.D.K., the government personnel agency for foreign employers. But if the embassy fired Sig, they reasoned, he would probably only be replaced by another spy who might be a bounder to boot. In any case, the younger Britons, who invited him to their parties and went to his, felt certain that he hated the Russians. "You see," explained Sig, "I'm a Pole.'' He made a determined pass at every new English girl he met-and at the boys as well. When they resisted...
...suggestion that the wealth of the new nation lies mainly in materialism. In fact, it is also abundant in its varied cultures and religions, which through history have discriminated against profane ideologies. Furthermore, your omission of any reference to the relatively huge national investments being expended in educating the younger generation (about 40% of the total population is under the age of 15) into a single nation, detracts credit from an otherwise intelligent and perceptive article on my country...
...offices of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company have hummed like a checkout counter as executives switched jobs. First, Chairman-President Ralph W. Burger, 73, stepped out as president and was succeeded by John D. Ehrgott, 67, despite the complaint of six outside directors that A. & P. needed younger blood. Next, Burger announced his retirement as chairman, creating an empty seat. Last week the seat was filled when quiet, reticent Jack Ehrgott moved up to chairman and chief executive after less than a month in his last job. As its new president A. & P. picked Vice President Melvin W. Alldredge...
...week trip through the country, Prince Johann first visited his younger brother in Texas. The Prince, currently studying in Switzerland, said he would like to come to the United States after graduating, "perhaps to attend Harvard for a year...