Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time a Republican state senator. Although refusing to make a definite commitment, Smith said last week that he is leaning towards joining the Republicans because he feels century-old family ties with the party, and senses that the party is presently open to the influence of younger members. "There's room for rising" in Vermont's Republican party, he added...
Older brother Bill linebackered for UCLA, younger brother Brian is currently a second-team cornerback there, there were nine full-time varsity coaches at his high school, and he has high school teammates currently enrolled at such places as USC, San Diego State and Colorado State...
Harvard Historian Frank Freidel, 60, who wrote one of the working papers prepared to stimulate discussion, suggested stamina and youth as helpful qualities. "Younger leaders are readier to venture in the dark. They haven't had their teeth knocked out as yet, and they are ready to take chances." Washington Lawyer Lewis Engman, 40, head of the Federal Trade Commission under Nixon, agreed: "One constant is the willingness to take risks, to row the boat out beyond the shore without the assurance that you will be able to get back...
...they had gone. I was the oldest of three girls. While we were children the second and third were always closer. They ran together and I was separate. I was also the overachieving older girl. Out of the experience of being an older child who quickly had younger siblings I developed another kind of role -to remain different and to remain critical...
...break in the West, the perekur is one of the favorite indulgences of Soviet workers, a time set aside for them to light up their favorite smokes. Older Russians usually prefer a cigarette called papirosa-a pungent blend of black, sun-cured tobacco with a hollow paper mouthpiece. Younger Russians tend to smoke a Western-style (though stronger than U.S. brands) filter tip. Despite all the evidence linking it with lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory ailments, smoking has been rising steadily in the U.S.S.R. Alarmed by this threat to the nation's health, Soviet officials recently began...