Word: youngish
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...uniformly lively group numbers allow everyone to participate equally in the fun. The chorus line effect in "Side by Side reveals each character's dependence on the others, then ends in comic exhaustion; these characters are quickly approaching middle age and can't keep up with their youngish friend Robert...
Ohio Senator John Glenn came in fourth. In the Winnebago trailer decorated with Glenn sings, Richard S. Sloan, intently chewing gum, tersely discussed the results over the phone. After hanging up, the serious-looking, youngish aide turned to the one reporter waiting for comment. Anticipating the question, he said simply: "We are pleased with our showing here...we hoped to build an organization and we have started that process...
...elegant, youngish man strolls through the brooding gloom of evening. The collar of his Burberry trench coat is flipped up against the damp mist which rolls through the streets. His foulard neck tie is confidently tied and asserted with a simple pin, and his Bally slippers make only the slightest squishing noise as he makes his way to his club for a few hands of whist, for talk of the Malaya network and of what new moles have been rooted out of it. At the door, he is greeted by the doorman, a fine, silver-haired chap clad...
...this summer, he adds bitterly, a picture taken in Lebanon gave a thousand lies! And with that, he launches into a caustic denunciation of what he perceives as the media's extreme bias against Israel, listing numerous cases where journalists unhesitatingly bought the Arab line. Speaking without notes, this youngish, bespectacled man slips from attacking the press to a general tirade defending the invasion of Lebanon...
...image-building: after all, George McGovern is very much a veteran politician. It is therefore a bit surprising that he doesn't greet you with standard politician's etiquette--no slap on the back, no patronizing compliment for your home state. He just shakes your hand firmly, his youngish face breaking into the familiar half-moon smile, and asks, with genuine interest, what's on your mind...