Word: centenarian
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...chairman's age in the proxy and wrote: "This is absurd." Boyd, who, with his wife Helen, is the second largest shareholder, with a 16.4% stake, won re-election with 84% of the voting stock. On Oct. 25, American business is due to get the first known centenarian chairman of the board...
...scene of other tales, just as it has been the setting for much of Fisher's own adult life. The collection's finest piece, The Oldest Man, is about an American woman's visit to a stern, mountainous region called the Massif Central, where a centenarian and his septuagenarian son have their ancestral home. As always, the author's observations of local landscape, weather, architecture and gastronomical specialties (in this case, Roquefort) are as keen and winning as her insights into her characters. Most engaging is the 100-year-old Pépé, who after...
...born in Liberia, was lured onto a slave ship in 1854 and sold to a Texas rancher named Charlie Smith. Freed under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Smith said he became known as "Trigger," a gun-slinging acquaintance of Billy the Kid and Jesse James. The spry, loquacious centenarian recounted tales that jibed with historical documents. One secret of his longevity: "I never drink green [plain] milk...
...records, University of Wisconsin Medical Physicist Richard Mazess and University of Massachusetts Anthropologist Sylvia Forman concluded that some of the local Methuselahs had lied about their ages and that previous researchers were all too eager to accept their claims. In fact, say Mazess and Forman, there is not a centenarian in the lot-the oldest villager...
...Objectivity of tone?" Ross scoffs. "There's lists and lists of phony centenarians." "Have you ever seen a centenarian?" Norris adds. "I've seen three. They're incredibly frail. You're astonished that they live till breakfast...