Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finding jawbones, teeth and other fossils that were clearly of hominid (manlike) origin. She and her coworkers, including her son Philip, also discovered thousands of fossilized tracks under a layer of ancient volcanic ash that had been eroded by seasonal water. Most were made by animals, but Philip, the younger brother of Anthropologist Richard Leakey (TIME Cover, Nov. 7), spotted several prints that apparently were left by a creature much higher on the evolutionary ladder...
...greatest affection is reserved for his title character, Erica (Jill Clayburgh), a Vassar-educated 37-year-old who suddenly loses her seemingly devoted husband of 16 years (Michael Murphy) to a younger woman. For the first time, Erica is without a man, and she must learn how to adjust. Eventually she does, but not without the help of a therapist and a new lover, an artist played by Alan Bates. By the end, Erica has arrived at a state of hard-won feminist bliss...
...same instant, Jack Hughes pummeled Terrier co-captain and tournament Most Valuable Player Jack O'Callahan. B.U.'s Dave Silk intervened and Jack met that challenge. Then B.U.'s Daryl McLeod came from his bench to tangle with the younger Hughes...
...vaguely Kennedyesque upbringing that taught them sailing on Lake Ontario, the endurance of cold morning showers and furiously intense sibling competition. Foster, the eldest of the five children, was the foremost of the group, grave and sententious; he quoted William James at the age of ten. Allen, four years younger, was Byronically romantic and found a place for his temperament in intelligence work...
Such a ritual transfer of the championship can touch deep, unarticulated feelings. If men dread death, they also look nervously behind them as they age to see what younger people are hurrying up to replace them, not only on the job but on the planet. The passing of champions can be cathartic; it is part of the large, primitive theatrics that sports perform...