Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remained soaking for five hours while the whole village tried to think of a way to get him out. The young men were for pulling him out, but the elders, respecting his age, opposed the use of force. Finally, someone remembered that the only one with influence over the old man was his son. They went to see the son, and he suggested that he would use the village's telephone system and ask to speak to the old man. It worked. Lobster-red after his long soaking in the hot water...
Rated as a "physiological technician," Specialist 3rd Class Walter M. Moore from Anniston, Ala., was assigned to the Air Force team operating the high-altitude chamber at Davis Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Ariz. Each day Moore, 19, and five other jet-age airmen, like similar crews at 40 other bases, carefully nursed in-training plane crews on simulated flights into thin-air altitudes. A straight-A student in off-duty courses at the University of Arizona, Specialist Moore soon learned on his Air Force duty how altitude affects the human body. Without oxygen a man blacks out above...
...count more Negroes than whites in its population: Washington, D.C.* Latest estimate by the city's health department: 438,000 Negroes (53%) and 387,000 whites (47%), a shift from 187,000 Negroes (28%) and 474,000 whites (72%) in 1940. Since today's Negro school-age population outnumbers whites 2 to 1, while whites concentrate in the middle and upper age brackets, the Negro majority will rise even higher in the next ten years...
...Macmillan, pale but still game, stopped back in London from his visit to Bonn, some of his more enthusiastic admirers were hailing his journeys as the diplomatic triumph of the age. SUPERMAC! HE DOES IT AGAIN ! headlined London's Daily Sketch. Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail-which, like most British papers, finds the West Germans too unbending toward Russia-had wondrous news to impart. In Bonn, confided the Daily Mail, Macmillan "completely won over Dr. Adenauer, to a system of step-by-step disarmament in Central Europe...
...cities, freedom has gone further. The average girl of any class is taller and stronger than was her mother at the same age. She wears earrings, permanents her hair and paints her nails, smokes, wears a wristwatch, Western dresses, nylon stockings and high heels. She may live in an apartment house that has also radically changed Japanese life. Formerly, a wife was chained to her home, not only by her duties, but by fear of fire if the wood-and-paper house was left unattended. Rice cooking used to take an hour before serving; now the housewife merely fills...