Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't want to pick cotton all my life," she says, explaining her move to the city's West Side from Mississippi nine years ago. She brought two children North, now has four more?along with two left to her care by an aunt, plus two younger brothers and a sister to tend. The extended family lives in a two-story frame house bracketed by vacant lots, gutted houses and apartment buildings. Albirtha has not held a job since 1968. One reason: her wage would be less than her $420.60 monthly welfare payment plus the $298.80 she receives in Social...
...next door, senior American pilots speak despondently of the future. "It's been a real tropical oasis," says one old pilot, "but it's getting more like a mirage with every passing day. There is no future, and the younger pilots know it and are getting out." Most of the 202 pilots (only two are Panamanian citizens) doubt that they will be paid adequately after Panama assumes that responsibility -or that the canal will be efficiently...
...wiry, ruddy-faced redhead, whose shock of tousled hair makes him look about ten years younger than he is, Bosworth has packed a lot of experience into his relatively short career. A protege of Charles Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Bosworth got his first taste of Government work as a staff member of the CEA in 1968, while he was still working toward a doctorate in economics at the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1969 and stayed until 1971, when he left to sign on at Brookings...
...early 20s, however, Colin is becalmed and resentful, a teacher of dull-eyed children in a coal town, a survivor of a glum and perfunctory love affair. His only vivid feeling is rancid hatred for a placid younger brother who accepts a miner's life as normal...
Sulzberger also pensioned off whole lumberyards of executive deadwood on the paper's 14th-floor management corridor and hired younger men. Then he spirited his biz kids off to secluded conference centers for endless sessions devoted to planning, budgeting, lectures from management experts and other exercises that Timesmen had never endured before "The editors would say, 'How can we have a budget when we never know what the news is going to be tomorrow...