Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...territory even had a capital. Born in Konin, Russia, in the early 1820s, Michel Goldwasser emigrated at the age of 27 to England, where he married and Anglicized the family name. Lured by tales of the California gold rush, he shipped out for San Francisco in 1852 with his younger brother Joseph, sold whisky and hard goods to the mining camps of Sonora...
...Street live two half sisters with their mother, who is just going through her fifth husband. All three are plagued by vague fears of death and desertion, and they ease them in various ways-the mother by marrying every man she meets instead of "just sleeping with them," the younger daughter by sleeping with everybody she cannot bear to marry, and the older daughter, Joan, by riding New Orleans streetcars and listening far into the night to Wagner's Liebestod. Boredom and jealousy of her sister lead Joan into an affair, and soon she finds herself pregnant...
Erica, by contrast, is the lyric tragedy of a shy, dreaming eight-year-old girl who. during the bitter days after World War II. realizes that her family is poor. From that moment on. she is haunted by the fear that her parents will abandon her, her younger brother and sister in the forest-as poor parents often do in stories she had heard. When her father and mother finally do abandon the children to seek work elsewhere. Erica is relieved. Now 14, she feels responsible, mature, freed at last from the terror of waiting. Stubbornly refusing the neighbors...
...five times), not to mention other members of the family, such as the Duke of Windsor and Margaret. Similarly, Belgium's royal family progresses from Albert in 1928 to Son Leopold III in 1937 and on to Grandson Baudouin. On the other hand, the Iranian dynasty, which is younger than TIME, began with a soldier named Reza Shah Pahlevi, who made TIME'S cover three times and was succeeded by his son, the present Shah, who has made it twice...
Valued conservatively at $3,000,000, the collection ranged from a delicate Madonna and Child by the Venetian master Carlo Crivelli to works, mostly portraits, by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...