Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, in fact, behaved noticeably like a candidate for reelection. He kissed no babies, but he welcomed four teen-age girls who had won a nationwide contest for radio talks on democracy (see cut). He posed with some roadbuilders and was invited to their convention...
Lunge, parry, thrust. For 19 years Coach Rene Perey has been grooming undergrads in how to pink their opponents most gracefully and efficiently in the age-old art of fencing...
...ruins of Persepolis; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland. Herzfeld dug for four years in & around the ancient Persian capital (burned by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C.), in 1933 unearthed sculpture believed to be the earliest specimens of art discovered in Asia, found a nearly perfectly preserved Stone Age village containing the earliest known windows, murals and household pottery...
...believe him, but they find out for themselves. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), a morally chaotic child of perhaps 40, starts coming apart early with bluster, fear and suspicion of his partners. Curtin (Tim Holt), a relatively stable youth, nearly cracks, too, under pressure, but gradually comes of age. The men run into jungle Indians, have to deal with a Texan (Bruce Bennett) who wants to muscle in on their little mine, and are hounded by bandits...
...lamented Robert Burns's lonely lassie. But, if statistics meant anything, every lassie could have her laddie this happy leap year. "Scotland," announced Registrar General J. G. Kyd last week, "is now the only European country where a maldistribution of sexes at marriageable age places women in a favorable position for finding husbands." The romantic ratio: 162,000 nubile Scotswomen, between the ages of 25 and 29, to match 176,000 unmarried men in the same age group...