Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missouri, four-time State Auditor Forrest Smith, who helped himself get re-elected by reminding voters that he was the man who mailed out the old-age pension checks, won the Democratic nomination for governor. Always a big vote-getter, plodding, affable Forrest Smith was rated a good bet to pull more votes in Missouri than Harry Truman. His Republican opponent: hefty, cautious Murray Thompson, operator of a small-town furniture store and speaker of the house...
...from California was only 17, and almost unknown. But last week in Wembley Stadium, husky 6 ft. 2 in. Bob Mathias, in two days' grueling competition, outran, outthrew, and outjumped 34 competitors, to win the Olympic Games decathlon. In victory, at an age when most youngsters are still gangling and ill-coordinated, he had proved his right to be classed with such all-round athletes as Carlisle's Jim Thorpe and West Point's Glenn Davis...
...never seen anything like it, I said to Alice, we can't sell any more books because we have no more to sell . . . to think how hard it used to be . . . it's nice to be glorious and popular in your old age, and to buy bones for Basket [her dog] and be admired by the young, well bless you kiddies bless...
...Have fun, because when you're my age, you'll regret every day you didn't." With this parting paternal advice from Columbia University's President Dwight Eisenhower, 29 students from Europe and the Middle East set off on a tour of the U.S. During the next 24 days, they slept in farmhouses and penthouses, ate at Antoine's in New Orleans and hot-dog stands along the road. They wore beanies saying "Welcome to Amarillo," collected cowboy hats and corncob pipes, celebrated Bastille Day in Mississippi. They appeared on 30 radio programs, traveled...
...Press hovers over its readers from cradle to grave, enrolls them in its "Toddlers' Club" as infants, gives free golden wedding parties for them in their old age. It counsels its readers, consoles them and fights their civic battles so well that, like Reader Harriger, they regard it as an old friend rather than a commercial enterprise...