Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought I was tough. ... I was one of the best fighters in my class at one time, but how do you think I got my money? I didn't get all of it from boxing. I was a stickup man that's what I was at the age of 16. I was boss of a gang, I mean I was the head of some tough guys...
...Mexico, men & women gathered last week for memorial masses, speeches, toasts, parades, Mexicans were honoring their defenders against the U.S., which, just 100 years ago, invaded the country in the name of "manifest destiny." The highest tributes were reserved for Los Niñs Heroes-the five teen-age cadets and their instructor who (legend says) threw themselves over the cliff at Chapultepec Castle rather than surrender to General Winfield Scott's U.S. troops in the war's climactic battle...
...decided to stay in politics. To Canadian politicians, that means that St. Laurent knows he is first in line for Mackenzie King's job. A brilliant lawyer and a respected politician, with a full grasp of both French and English, St. Laurent has only one political handicap: his age. He is 65, and cannot be expected to be Prime Minister for more than a few years. For the longer haul, the Liberal Party must find a younger...
Explained Taylor: "The players . . . would be hired, just like professors . . . [but] under rules as to age, salary, etc., to be agreed upon by the college presidents. It would work like this: suppose we find a great halfback, over in the Bluegrass, just graduating from high school. He wants a college education but he can't afford it. Maybe he prefers Xavier University to the University of Louisville. We sign him as a player on our professional team at, say, $4,000 a year and tell him he may go to school anywhere he likes, provided he is on time...
...masters, the greatest have a quality beyond the temporal, which Picasso lacks, and shock tactics are not a final way to alter human vision. The crux and center of Picasso's art is, in my view, hysteria, and in this he so echoes the prevailing evil of his age that he seems to be its prophet...