Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brother Arthur. As soon as he saw me alone, my youngest brother, Arthur, greeted me with a solemn kiss on the cheek. I later learned that he had asked my mother if it would be proper for him to kiss me since I had been away. Even at that early age [Arthur was 7, Dick 12] he had acquired our family's reticence about open displays of affection. A short time after we returned to Whittier, Arthur complained of a headache. Arthur's condition deteriorated quickly, and the doctor was unable to find the cause. I remember...
...middle-aged man from another kibbutz near the border was just killed by Palestinian mortar fire. Here in Hanita, the bomb shelters have been packed most nights during the past week; the youngest children are always the first to be rushed to the shelters when an attack is expected. Yet the Israelis who live here seem detached and almost oblivious to the dangers. By now, they have grown used to the violence; it is a part of their daily lives...
...explosions increase outside, so, too--almost imperceptibly--does the speed and tempo of our bomb shelter party inside. The singing becomes louder, the dancing faster, the laughter more frenzied--as if in defiance of the surrounding mortar attacks. Even the youngest children seem to understand and follow their parents' example...
Described in newspaper accounts as "the youngest stockbroker in the country" when he started the company in 1976, Dillon has offered advice on investments to scores of Harvard students--and even a few faculty members--from his office above Brigham's Ice Cream on Mass...
...moving into the class of the finest ballerinas: New York City Ballet's Suzanne Farrell and Patricia McBride, A.B.T.'s Natalia Makarova and Cynthia Gregory; and Gelsey is six years younger than the youngest of these. Her stage presence fuses contraries?strength and limpidity, control and abandon, energy and ease. "It's difficult to talk about Gelsey," says Choreographer Antony Tudor, "because she is so right." Many try nonetheless. Rudolf Nureyev commends her: "She has that beautiful fluidity in her movements and an incredible strength for such a small girl." Mikhail Baryshnikov notes that "she advances from performance to performance...