Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afraid? Were the graduate veterans worried about the problems of the Atomic Age? Ed Prizer, who flew 103 combat missions as a Spitfire pilot in the R.C.A.F., returned to graduate from the University of Southern California, wrote a half-page valedictory for U.S.C.'s Alumni Review: "We Are Unafraid." Excerpts: "This year there are some seniors who are afraid to graduate ... to face the Atomic Age. . . . Those of us who do not fear graduation are unafraid because we know we hold the key to the future. ... We value faith...
Another-the one with the lamp below -was named Louis Philippe. He was 38. He earned 4,772 francs a month. Said he: "I'm not afraid of work. On my days off I eat with my parents-at my age! It's a shame we have to get angry just to be able to live. But truly, patience has its limits...
Wriggles in the Night. Other editors were trying their best to bring comfort. In an Indian restaurant in Soho, the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian decided that the time was ripe for - testing the age-old theory that curry is cooling. "It brought tears to the eyes," he reported after consuming a heaping plateful of the hottest variety, "and certainly the external world seemed cool for a time compared to the inferno raging within...
...eventually became an assistant managing editor of the New York Times. Last week he turned up in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, to get an honorary law degree from his alma mater, St. Francis Xavier University. Said he: mass Canadian emigration to the U.S. should cease because in the atomic age "it may be necessary to abandon [the British] Isles and move the center of the British Empire to Canada. What remains of the British Empire [needs] reorganization and regeneration, and in both of these Canada might have to take the lead...
...line with one length to spare. Whitey Abel, as surprised as nearly everyone else at Long Island's Aqueduct track, dropped his binoculars in the excitement. But ancient Honey Cloud, winner of the first race he had run in nearly six years, took it calmly. At the great age of 13 (comparable to a human's 45 years), the old horse stepped into the winner's circle as if he did such things every...