Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draftees for Army service. All over the nation draft boards riffled through their files, and picked names from the 1,440,000 1-A's among the nation's 9,790,000 registered 18-to 26-year-olds. They would start with the oldest first...
Lucille Shadrick, a thin and bony woman, left the table, sobbing. Theodore Shadrick stared stonily, pondering the news that the fourth oldest of his six sons and four daughters was gone. "He was the best there was," said Theodore finally. "Never caused us a mite of worry...
High Traditions. Despite the sensational Post's sensational success, some of its oldest friends were shocked by its behavior. Though they admired Wechsler's crisp, hard-hitting editorial page, they accused him of betraying the Post's high traditions by pandering to the public's lowest tastes on its news pages. Last week the Saturday Review of Literature, a high-minded magazine with a lower circulation (97,866), published a debate between Wechsler and Editorial Writer August Heckscher of the New York Herald Tribune. Subject: Is sex necessary to sell a liberal newspaper...
This taut little novel takes a sharp look at one of the oldest problems in literature: the origins and consequences of a crime of passion. Like Theodore Dreiser in An American Tragedy, though on a far more modest scale, Novelist Foote has tried to find out and explain why a peaceable, inoffensive man can sometimes be driven to murder. He has set his story in his native Mississippi among the poor-white farmers and the small-town characters he intimately knows...
...cluster of pavilions beside a Venetian lagoon, they had their best chance of finding it. There the Venice biennial, the world's oldest, biggest and best-known international art show, had assembled a record exhibition of 4,000 art works from a record 22 nations, to celebrate its silver anniversary...