Word: younger
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George Bush, a decade younger, nevertheless was caught up in the Chowder and Marching retinue during his days as a member of Congress. "Nixon was on this swing through the country back in 1966 when he went out and raised money for a lot of newly running candidates," Bush recalled. "I was one of them. Nixon came down to Houston and helped. I was kind of awestruck. He had done so many things, and he was getting ready to run for President again. I was the new boy on the political block, and I was very appreciative for what...
With Tracy's younger sister Dinah (Jessica Yager) providing amusing, if at times annoying, comic relief, the play also sports a sense of humor to accompany its romantic and social entanglements. Yager seems a bit too comic at times, with her pig-tails and "rooty-tooty" lingo, but the scene in which she entertains the two reporters is one of the funniest of the play. As the lecherous old Uncle William, Greg Clayman is also quite amusing, and the skillful makeup job of Rosetta Lee makes his protrayal even more convincing. His handling of the standard mistaken-identity plot...
...tried to help them [the younger players] realize that lacrosse wasn't the most important thing in the world," he says. "I tried to direct the team to take steps not just to win, but to be a true athlete, and realize why we play this, or any sport...
When Dick Nixon was 12, his younger brother Arthur, the fourth of the five boys, complained of a headache; a month later he was dead of meningitis. Nixon wrote later that he cried every day for weeks. When Harold, the eldest son, was stricken with tuberculosis, Hannah left the rest of the family to take him to the dryer air in Prescott, Arizona. She could pay for this only by operating a clinic where other TB patients waited out their last weeks of life. In the summers Dick found jobs nearby as a janitor, a chicken plucker, a carnival barker...
...March 1992, Diamond's complaint says, her problems continued when a "younger, less experienced and less qualified" man was promoted to a position she too had south...