Word: septuagenarian
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...delighted with your reference to the word "kiddies," so frequently used, as "insulting." In Sayings of a Septuagenarian circulated among friends a year ago the enclosed lines were printed...
...Said Septuagenarian-Subscriber Burr in his Sayings: "To apply to them the name of a domestic animal, distinguished for butting and objectionable odor, cheapens children...
Bill Thomas, 63, has unhorsed more than a few people in his 27 years in Congress. In 1995, Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons, a normally affable septuagenarian, got so angry at Thomas after a contentious Medicare debate that he lunged for the younger man in a Capitol Hill hallway. A year and a half ago, Thomas outraged a group of House Democrats when he tried to get the police to evict them after they walked out of a hearing and occupied an adjacent room. And then there was the irate Capitol Hill staff member who beat up on Thomas' Mercedes...
Among Washington elites, Donald Rumsfeld is the undisputed master of the press conference: a dexterous debater who undresses interrogators with a mix of septuagenarian folksiness and alpha-male swagger. That skill has helped Rumsfeld deflect blame for the mismanagement of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and keep his job as Defense Secretary for George W. Bush's second term. But when Rumsfeld fielded questions last week from soldiers preparing to move from Kuwait into Iraq, he finally met his match. Army Specialist Thomas Wilson, 31, asked the Secretary why soldiers are being sent to war in humvees and trucks...
...fear. That assessment might have proved accurate had Jiang not courageously penned a second letter to the party leadership in February--this one denouncing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. On June 1, on their way to apply for visas to visit their daughter living in the U.S., the septuagenarian Jiang and his wife Hua Zhongwei disappeared. Initially, officials at his work unit, the No. 301 People's Liberation Army Hospital in Beijing, said the couple had been taken to a secret location "for their protection." Sources told TIME last week that they had been taken into custody by military...