Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost as soon as he learns the union's rules-such as the one forbidding editors to lay a hand on type -an apprentice learns how relentlessly the I.T.U. will take care of him. In a strike, it will pay up to 60% of his wage. In old age, it will pay him a pension, or put him up at the cozy Printers' Home at Colorado Springs. When he dies, it will fork over $50 to $500 in death benefits...
...tempered, 150-lb. Ted Schroeder, who is Jake's best friend and No. 2 man on the U.S. Davis Cup team, has it too 8#151;but not the way Jake has. They are both the same age (Schroeder is eleven days older), both products of California's humming tennis factory. Kramer's eight-month-old son is named for .Ted, and Schroeder calls his baby boy Little John...
...From the age of 13, when he first decided to be a tennis player (rather than a baseball player), it has been his whole life. First he became champion of San Bernardino's Arrowview Junior High. Then, at 14, he went hunting bigger game, and got his ears pinned back in the first round of a Santa Monica boys' tournament. It was a terrible shock...
...radioactive world, nobody ever feels completely safe. Radioactivity, a stealthy, silent horror that is neither felt nor seen, is both a mental and a physical hazard. Last week the U.S. had a small sample of the radioactivity fear that may become commonplace in the Atomic Age...
...famous for his wit, his dandyism and his fierce, flamboyant art, which now fills one-third of the Louvre's 19th Century tier of honor. But Delacroix's leaping, flesh-tearing lions, burning cities, shipwrecks and hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery was "the most precious part of [Delacroix's] soul, the part devoted entirely to painting his dreams and to the cult...