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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...age of six, Peng Teh-huai attacked his schoolmaster with a stool. Three years later, young Peng deliberately kicked over his grandmother's opium, which was cooking on the stove, and was banished from the family. Last week, at 48, Peng Teh-huai, as the second ranking general of Communist China, was still going strong. He was basking in kudos from the Communist Central Committee for the "brilliant victory" he had scored over a Nationalist force at Ichuan, 60 miles southeast of Yenan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tears for the Valiant | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Unrepentant, he emerged to pull the noses of most of the important little men of the age, in cartoons which showed up their littleness and made them look funny besides. Sometimes, when he was deeply angry, he would strike straight out, as in his camera-strict drawing of a worker's family which had been murdered by the King's police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knife-Thrower | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Next day, his following was so great that Milan's Cardinal Schuster granted him the use of the cathedral. It was not nearly big enough. A throng of 300,000 came to hear him call upon Italy to "give the world a new age of Christian individualism wherein the wealthy, like the early Christians, gladly share their excess wealth. . . . Woe to the rich man who does not hear the call. Woe to the poor man who angrily nourishes hate and dreams of violence.. . . The age of love is approaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Age of Love | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Ropes. "The steel grey market is on the ropes," crowed Iron Age. "One more heavy punch will knock it out." Steel, which would have been snapped up a month ago despite fantastic prices, was now going begging, the magazine found. But it also found steel in the regular market as short as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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