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My eighty-year-old mother considers hers the greatest toy she's had in her entire life.
Steve Kettmann: Samantha Power Is Right Steve Kettmann 2011
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"Always ready to lend a helping hand with mowing my yard," Mrs. Cavet, the eighty-year-old woman across the street would say.
The Quiet Man Erin Zulkoski 2011
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Too often, however, it seemed and I'm wearing my shrink glasses on this one that Rupert's difficulty understanding questions or recalling facts was less because he was non-co-operative, or pretending to be out-of-the loop as a strategy to protect himself and News Corp's outlaw culture than it had to do with the fact that the eighty-year-old Murdoch is slipping, but still holds too much power and pride to admit it.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Murdoch Testimony: Missing a Few Marbles? Michael Shaw 2011
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She is an eighty-year-old woman who still has the passion of a student campaigner when it comes to representing the Latino people, so when she agreed to not only back my song but appear in its video, it personally felt like I had recruited a Mother Teresa or a Gandhi.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Too often, however, it seemed and I'm wearing my shrink glasses on this one that Rupert's difficulty understanding questions or recalling facts was less because he was non-co-operative, or pretending to be out-of-the loop as a strategy to protect himself and News Corp's outlaw culture than it had to do with the fact that the eighty-year-old Murdoch is slipping, but still holds too much power and pride to admit it.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Murdoch Testimony: Missing a Few Marbles? Michael Shaw 2011
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Too often, however, it seemed and I'm wearing my shrink glasses on this one that Rupert's difficulty understanding questions or recalling facts was less because he was non-co-operative, or pretending to be out-of-the loop as a strategy to protect himself and News Corp's outlaw culture than it had to do with the fact that the eighty-year-old Murdoch is slipping, but still holds too much power and pride to admit it.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Murdoch Testimony: Missing a Few Marbles? Michael Shaw 2011
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"Always ready to lend a helping hand with mowing my yard," Mrs. Cavet, the eighty-year-old woman across the street would say.
The Quiet Man Erin Zulkoski 2011
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Sometimes I even confused his voice with my own, or was unable to tell us apart; strange to say, considering he's an eighty-year-old man from Poland.
Nicole Krauss explains what inspired her to write A History of Love 2010
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Edward Necarsulmer, you are young, with the wisdom of an eighty-year-old man.
Joseph’s Grace Shelia P. Moses 2011
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The choices my patients make and the ways in which they approach their own health have shown me that an eighty-year-old recovering from heart surgery can sometimes be my healthiest patient, whereas a twenty-four-old on no medication can be my sickest.
The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011
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