Word: youngest
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Dancing girls balancing lighted candelabra gaily preceded the bridal couple into a large tent after the wedding of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's youngest daughter, Jihan, 16, and Engineer Mahmud Osman, 26. Inside, the newlyweds settled down with Omar Sharif and 1,000 other wedding guests to watch an eight-hour music and comedy show. At that, the reception was an austerity model, in deference to Egypt's economic problems. The entertainers, including an ample belly dancer, donated their services. And the father of the bride cut costs by serving the guests only a light snack of canap...
...after graduation from France's elite civil service academy, L'Ecole Nationale d'Administration, he won a position on the staff of Georges Pompidou, then Charles de Gaulle's Premier. In the next decade he held five ministerial posts, and at 41 became the youngest Premier in the history of the Fifth Republic. Now, at 44, he has picked up the fallen banner-and lofty rhetoric-of le grand Charles himself...
...team will send its youngest, most innocent-looking member, often an eleven-or twelve-year-old, into a bank to spot a likely victim: a woman, say, who is cashing a money order or a Social Security check. When she leaves the building, only one member of the gang will follow her closely so as not to arouse her suspicions. The others trail far behind. When she gets into the elevator in her apartment house, two or three will catch up and board it with her and get off at the floor below hers. Then, as she unlocks her door...
When Markey announced his candidacy for the Seventh District seat last spring, he was only 29 years old and a second-term representative in the state legislature. During the summer primary campaign, he turned 30, but he was still acutely aware that if elected, he would be perhaps the youngest member of the House. Youth is often an advantage, but in practical terms, the only people who successfully run for Congress at age 29 are either personally wealthy, blessed with a famous name, or are war heroes. Markey was none of these, and most of the politicians in his home...
APPLICANT, YOUNGEST--The admissions office reports that every so often they receive letters from eight-year-old toddlers asking "permission" to come to Harvard. Children write these letters and ask their parents to send them off to the proper address. Last year during Commencement season, a woman accompanying her husband to his tenth class reunion at Harvard became so enamored of the place that she decided the school would be ideal for her child. Marching into the admissions office, she asked for an application for her child...