Word: youngish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casting about for something to enliven a newsless paper one night last week, Sir William Haley, editor of the prestigious Times of London, decided to convert a gossipy background article by his youngish new political correspondent into the day's leading news story. Next morning 250,000 Britons ("The top people read the Times") learned to their intense fascination that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had lately taken Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd's arm "in a paternal grip" and proposed that Lloyd move down to a lesser government job within the next "several months...
Back to foggy London after a month of Nassau sun, Elder (70) Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot and his youngish (32) wife (and former secretary) Valerie disembarked from the Queen Mary boat train. "It was glorious there," mused Eliot to a waiting Daily Mailman. "We had the place practically to ourselves. There was some young film star chap. Can't think of his name." Prompted Valerie: "It was Gary Cooper, dear...
...whose nerves must remain steady if West Berlin's 2,200,000 people are to remain free is Mayor Willy Brandt, a youngish Socialist with a lifetime of adventure already behind...
...fight; and the Senator's flow of rheum continued. "At first," Mrs. Pusey recalls, "Senator McCarthy wasn't interested in the President of Lawrence College. But the President of Harvard, he knew, was someone who would get him national coverage." She recollects having met McCarthy only once, a youngish, nondescript man on a railroad train parlor car to Chicago...
...such pilgrim-the book's narrator -is Andrew Colquhoun, a youngish Scots drifter eager to pluck the heart from Clausen's mystery, write his biography and perhaps thereby come to terms with his own restless nature. Also on the way to Clausen is an odd trio of characters: a tropical tycoon named Zuckermann, who is playing the white man's last rubber in the game of enlightened self-interest; his beautiful and enigmatic secretary. Gemma; and his top research man, a brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses...