Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strengthening their political hold on Louisiana. Governor Earl prepared to appoint a friend-probably a Monroe oil millionaire named William C. Feazel-on condition that the appointee would not run for the office after the interim term expired. In November, having achieved the Senate's 30-year minimum age, Nephew Russell would run, with every chance of election...
...devious ways of Arab rivals-and of great powers. Abdullah was born in Mecca 66 years ago, into one of the proudest families of Islam, the Hashimites, in the 39th generation in direct line from the Prophet Mohamed. He was the son of Hussein, Sherif of Mecca. From the age of eleven he grew up at the court of the Turkish tyrant Abdul Hamid in Constantinople, where he was, like other children of notables, a hostage for the good behavior of his father. There the boy Abdullah learned languages .(besides Arabic of Koranic purity, he speaks Turkish, understands French...
...Epoch. Said Wilhelmina: "I must accept reality, and though I know full well that man proposes and God disposes, I think that in the interests of you all and the Empire the government should be confided to Juliana, who apart from the wisdom of insight is favored by her age with fresh youthful forces at her disposal...
...York's retired Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning, at work at 82 on his reminiscences of the past 45 years. The period he enjoyed, he observed, witnessed "the coming of the automobile . . . aviation, the two most terrible wars this world has ever known . . . the United Nations . . . the atomic age." His verdict on the era: "an interesting...
...Unitarian church discharges a 'vestibule' function in relation to the larger Christian church, inviting into itself as a foyer the unchurched but searching souls of our age who are as yet unprepared to penetrate into the Protestant sanctuary...