Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was 16, Bill, the youngest, was sent to the Menninger Clinic in Kansas. Bridget suffered from ever worsening epilepsy and committed suicide at 21. Maggie, who had always seemed so strong, may also have committed suicide during the tryout of a play she loathed. Stomach problems forced Leland to give up most of his pleasures ten years before he died in 1971, and toward the end his once active mind was reduced and eroded by strokes. Brooke, who was on the cover of LIFE when she was 15, is now 39. She has already had two divorces...
...several names she would use before taking Chiang Ch'ing [meaning Azure River, because of her fondness for rivers and because azure "excels blue," a color she loved] her name in the community of Communism. She had numerous brothers and sisters-how many she would not say-the youngest of them at least a dozen years older than she was. Her father [a wheelwright] was an "old man" of about 60 when she was born. Though her mother was over 40, Chiang Ch'ing remembered her as being much younger than her father and showing far greater tenderness...
...show, becomes clear. Unable to sit quietly in his old age and act the part of an elder statesman, T.R. rounds up a volunteer regiment and offers to lead them into the fray, an offer promptly refused by President Wilson. Still, all four sons serve courageously, with the youngest, Quentin, flying for the air corps, and the blustery old roughrider shouts a rousing "bully" at the news of every medal they receive. The fervor of war incites stirring memories of the heroic charge up San Juan Hill. Undoubtedly the most moving scene of the play, T.R.'s moment of triumph...
...ambitious, handsome neurologist-turned-politician who has been Crosland's deputy for the past eleven months. Born in Devon to a physician father, Owen developed his socialist convictions while working in National Health Service hospitals, and first won a Parliament seat from Plymouth in 1966. Britain's youngest Foreign Secretary since Anthony Eden was named to the post in 1935, Owen got the job partly by default: Healey apparently felt that the demanding Exchequer post, during Britain's financial crisis, is a better steppingstone to No. 10 Downing than the old glamour slot at the Foreign Office...
...security clearance, Sakharov was never without the shadow of a bodyguard, even when he slept or went swimming. There were, however, compensations. He won the Stalin Prize and was thrice awarded the country's highest civilian medal, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He was the youngest member ever elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was given a suburban dacha, a sizable Moscow apartment and the princely salary (by Soviet standards) of $26,500 a year...