Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Britain's Conservative Party announced that it had chosen her next-door neighbor, Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major, to succeed her, the ousted Prime Minister dashed through the connecting door between No. 10 and No. 11 Downing Street to congratulate him. At 47, Major had just become the youngest man to assume the venerable office since 1894. As a smiling Thatcher watched from a second-floor window of the Chancellor's official residence, Major emerged to face the press and pay tribute to his political mentor, calling her "one of the most remarkable leaders the Conservative Party has ever...
...movie family is the McCallisters, preparing to leave for a Christmas reunion in Paris. Their youngest son Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is sent to bed without supper for spilling milk on the passports. "I don't want to see you ever again for the rest of my whole life," he sulkily informs his mother. When he wakes up the next morning, he has got his wish: the family has vanished. In the confusion of a rushed departure for the airport, a sleeping Kevin has been forgotten, and his absence is not noticed until the rest of the clan is halfway over...
...sports the youngest starting lineup in theBig East, boasting three freshmen...
...team must prepare its bevy of younger players for fierce, agressive college squash. One of the youngest, freshman Jordanna Fraiberg, must adapt to the psychological and physical intensity of college ball. As the 1989-90 U.S. and Canadian junior national champion, the top-seeded Fraiberg was raised in an intense squash environment. Her older brother, Jeremy, is one of the top two players on the men's team...
Though Cheney was advised by the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral William Crowe, to pick an officer from the Pentagon's top echelon to be his successor, Cheney passed over 15 more senior generals. He recommended Powell, the first black and, at 52, the youngest officer ever to serve in the post. Powell may be Cheney's equal as a political insider in Washington; many believe he could become the first African American to be nominated for Vice President by either major party. And while both men have a quick smile and ready wit, they hold the reins...