Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...task force: "The physical ability of families to survive even the most terrifying nuclear attack is, in the ultimate reckoning, a fact of crucial importance to our national security. The will to survive, coupled with the ability to do so, ranks next to military power in the nuclear age as the best deterrent to aggression and the best assurance of final victory over any enemies who might attack...
Tate's four summers at Harvard have been by invitation. "After a certain age one never applies," he laughed. He added he has "lots of friends" in Cambridge and Boston, spends weekends at the Cape and in Maine, and is going to Tennessee before returning to Minnesota in the fall...
Folly pursues us at every stage of our lives. If someone seems wise, it is only because his follies befit his age and his position...
...seemed far away; the children themselves did not feel threatened. It is different now. The prayers they write today contain pleas for protection in the event of war, nuclear attack or other crisis ... By the time they are twelve, they have become active sharers in the anxiety of our age...
...age in which "sophistication" may mean anything from talking like Noel Coward to owning a Diners' Club card, the plumed figure of La Rochefoucauld towers at an impressive altitude of worldliness. The eldest son (born in 1613) of an ancient and doughty French clan, François de la Rochefoucauld followed with vigor the customs of the royal court, which is to say he carried on a succession of tumultuous affairs with titled ladies, tangled in the incessant intrigues and wars of 17th century France, recovered twice from severe wounds, and at 66 died, as befitted a gentleman...