The face inside the hood was stubbled gray old man, I thought, large nose, eyes on the sidewalk but also noting my presence.

NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky

The polls were a bit fluky: a Republican working for Bush conceded that some 40% of those who picked Bush in the early days thought they were voting to bring back the Old Man, not Junior.

CNN: Who chose George?

At first, I thought it was Nnamabia, and then I thought it was the old man from his cell.

NEWYORKER: Cell One

Somewhere out West, there is an 80-year-old black woman who never thought she'd see the day when a black man would be elected president.

CNN: How Obama made opportunity real in America

My parents would give me or Sandy a couple of coins to drop into his collection box, largess, I always thought, dispensed out of kindness so as not to hurt the feelings of a poor old man who, from one year to the next, seemed unable to get it through his head that we'd already had a homeland for three generations.

NPR: Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America'

Until the attack on May 21st, it was generally thought that the portly, balding, 66-year-old Mr Hadi, a former military man from the south who has often been portrayed as shy and unassertive, had been doing rather well.

ECONOMIST: Strife in Yemen