Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pedal the "no penalty" issue. The union's negotiators were making a lot more noise about Ford's shiny new model for a pension plan. Six weeks ago, when Leonard himself proudly announced the plan, almost everybody cheered. The plan was a first long step toward old-age security for thousands of auto factory workers (TIME, July...
...many momentous voyages-her first run 'as a luxury liner since World War II. As the Isle of Wight fell astern, and she glided majestically past the coast of England, the Queen was not only steaming for New York but out of an all but vanished age-an age of which she had once been a sumptuous symbol, and whose splendor (and profits sorely needed by Britons) she was making a gallant attempt to recapture...
...favor to the offenders as well as to itself. Lest his idea of a "light touch of government" sound too frightening to the press, Hocking drew an analogy to another kind of freedom which submitted to self-discipline and gained by it: "There is nothing freer, in our age, than the inquiry of science. Yet no one is free to be a scientist on his own version of the multiplication table...
...Age & Respect. Shotton, a kind of Flatbush Cincinnatus, was called from his Florida farm last spring by Boss Branch Rickey to take charge of the Dodgers, after Manager Leo Durocher was suspended for a year (TIME, April 21). Shotton, semi-retired after a long career as outfielder, coach, manager and Brooklyn scout, scarcely knew his players' first names. At first he leaned heavily for advice on Stanky and Pitcher Hugh Casey, but now he runs the team by himself. Only once-after the Dodgers had lost four straight to the Cards in June-has Boss Rickey called Shotton into...
Within reach of the historian is a well-thumbed copy of "The Age of Jackson," and what could pass for a container from Leavitt and Peirce or the Harvard Provision Company...