Word: greybeard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hills. The present Sultan, eleventh of his line, is Said bin Taimur, 46, a portly greybeard who was educated at a college for princes in British India, writes precise letters in English on crested blue paper, reads the airmail London Times delivered by the R.A.F., and understands perfectly what oil could do for his depleted fortune...
...Like Russians. Then the real riot started. One demonstrator climbed the flagpole, ripped down the U.S. flag. "Good, good," cried an elderly Chinese greybeard. Bolder rioters stormed into the embassy compound; on their heels came a frenzied mob. The rioters crashed into the embassy building itself, shouting, sacking and destroying. U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin's safe was hurled out of a second-floor window onto the roof of his Cadillac. Desks, Venetian blinds, papers, files and other office equipment fell in a hail from the embassy window. Secret files and papers were strewn about like wastepaper. Some...
...Appleton. a proper Bostonian of 19 whose wealth and social position matched her looks and charm. His grief notwithstanding, the young (29) widower wasted little time. They talked and walked by the Rhine, Longfellow reading poetry aloud as he plodded along behind her. He was not yet the gentle greybeard whom every U.S. child would associate with Hiawatha and spreading chestnut trees, but Harvard had given him a chair of languages and literature and even by exacting standards he might have been called a catch. But it was seven years before Fanny could bring herself...
...Atlantic City last week, 168 doctors registered for one of the year's most important medical meetings, and there was not a greybeard in the lot. The American Society for Clinical Investigation (research men only) prides itself on its other, shorter name: The Young Turks. When the time came for the presidential address, the Young Turks (and 1,400 visitors from allied medical groups also meeting in Atlantic City) sat back and listened to Dr. William Barry Wood Jr., 42, professor of medicine at St. Louis' Washington University-and even better known to fame as Harvard...
...format, Principles of Internal Medicine (Blakiston; $12) is a weighty (8¾ Ibs.) volume, and unavoidably full of medical polysyllables. But its spirit is light, largely because of the personality of Editor Tinsley R. Harrison and the youthfulness (by medical greybeard standards) of the writing staff. Dr. Harrison, former president of the American Heart Association, is only 50; most of the associate editors and contributors range from under 30 to 45 and the average is well under...