Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father's den, turned on the big console television and waited, cool enough, while she thought over her plans to dispatch other members of the family as, each on tedious schedule, they came home from school or work. ABC's American Bandstand, the 4 p.m. teen-age dance show, had been on a couple of minutes when Diana's sandy-haired brother, 14-year-old Bobby, slammed the front screen door, stomped familiarly back through the kitchen into the den. Resting the old gun on the TV, Diana took aim and shot him through the forehead, dropping...
...rural Japan is no longer the place the elders knew. First break in the age-old pattern of peasant poverty came with the land-reform law imposed on Japan by General Douglas MacArthur...
...news struck the nation like a sonic boom. Canada had worked long and hard since 1945 to build up its own jet aircraft industry, hoped to hit the big time with its swift CF-105, possibly even sell some to the U.S. Air Force. High costs and the missile age made it impossible. To equip the R.C.A.F. with Arrows would cost something like $2 billion, and the first operational models would not be in service until 1961. A better bet was to spend the money on a setup like the U.S.'s SAGE system: improved DEW-line radar, electronic...
Second Love. It taxed all her tenacity for Sara Murray to get to be a doctor at all. She knew that was what she wanted to be from age twelve, when she saw a fellow worshiper convulsed by an epileptic seizure in a Newton, Mass, church. But that was in 1896, when women doctors were still frowned upon. Sara's carriage-builder father told her to forget the idea. After breezing through Radcliffe in three years, she pursued her second love, philology, took a Ph.D. at the University of Munich. There, too, she met and married Lawyer Sebastian Jordan...
...second husband, retired Investment Banker Penfield Mower, and to get to Boston Symphony concerts. And she will have a tough stint as a six-day-a-week columnist for King Features Syndicate. Appropriately, her first "Health and Happiness" column for next week begins: "Let's face it: old age must be lived and lived with...