Word: elders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before coming to Harvard, Brynteson had not participated in any competitive athletics; except an occasional football game with her elder brothers. That, however, does not mean she came to Harvard as a stranger to soccer...
Although John Howe asserts that his actions are his own doing, Somerville insiders say that it is really his elder sister Marie who runs the family's political business. "John's a good kid, a simple kid," says one Somerville assessor. "It's Marie who's the heavy." Yet if Marie has used John for her own political ends, she has also been unafraid to engage in petty but questionable conduct...
Poland's three top Communist officials, who had jousted for years with Wojtyla and his wily elder colleague Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 77, cabled the new Pope to tell him of the "great satisfaction" in his homeland. They also lifted travel restrictions so that 5,000 Poles could travel by trains and a private cars to the installation and another more 1,000 could take chartered flights, forming what one official called "an air bridge between Warsaw and Rome...
What has Somoza done for Washington in exchange? Aside from repressing any domestic movement for popular power, the Somozas have had a strong regional anti-communist consciousness. In 1954, for example, the elder Somoza lent his private estate for CIA training of right-wing Guatemalan exiles led by Castillo Armas, and allowed U.S. bombers supporting the exiles to take off from Nicaragua. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the Somozas began to develop tighter relations with right-wing Cuban exiles who, with the CIA, were plotting to overthrow the Castro government. In 1961, the Somozas' private lands were used...
...Action, called in the city's most respected roofer to examine a shoddy roof job that a reader complained about, and found himself in the middle of a family squabble. The job had been done by the roofer's nephew. "You can quote me on this," the elder man told Brown, who did just that. "The kid is incompetent. He doesn't know what he is doing...