Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twisted Trail. Within hours, the city, long inured to the rumbles of the Sinners, the Assassins, and other juvenile gangs, was raging with anger over the latest outbreak of wanton murder; since January, New York teen-age gang warfare had accounted for eight senseless killings and scores of beatings and knifings." Flanked by reporters, the police fanned out to follow the twisted trail left by "Cape Man," "Umbrella Man" and their pals...
Like big city cops all the way from Manhattan to Tokyo, police in once placid Amsterdam were being run ragged by teen-age punks. Dressed in juvenile delinquency's international uniform-leather jacket and blue jeans-Amsterdam's longhaired nozem* liked to roar around the city's central Dam Square on souped-up motorcycles, scaring tourists, chasing pretty girls and disrupting traffic. Time and again police squads charged gangs of nozem with batons and sabers swinging; the nozem continued to flourish, and nozempie kijken-watching the nozem-became a popular evening pastime in Amsterdam...
Neither university will build big apparatus. None is necessary; space-age man encounters many natural plasmas and creates many new ones. Fluorescent lamps are full of glowing plasma. The newly discovered Van Allen radiation belt, which surrounds the earth and stands as a threat to space-voyaging man. is a thin but dangerous plasma. The fireballs of nuclear explosions are made of plasma; so are electric arcs. When the warhead of a missile slams back into the atmosphere, it heats the air around it to 18.000° and turns it into an electrically charged plasma...
...this new school year of 1959-60 begins with 1,843,000 more children than the schools have room for. One-third of the schools are potential firetraps ; some are still using gaslight; nearly 75% of the high schools are too small to pay for anything resembling a nuclear-age curriculum. And though wise men urge the country to spend at least twice as much money for education, the U.S. maintains an "educational deficit" estimated at anything from $6.8 billion to $9 billion yearly...
...Everywhere brighter children are reaching algebra much earlier, sometimes by the sixth grade. ¶ Foreign language study is soaring, especially in elementary schools. Last year the U.S. Office of Education urged all schools to begin ten years of language in the third grade, the most sound-sensing age level (all Russian children begin in the fifth grade). This year Washington, D.C. is starting third-grade French and Spanish. Hawaii's elementary schools will teach Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Tagalog. More than 400 U.S. high schools will teach Russian; New York City and its suburbs alone has more high school...