Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumored that M. E. might veto the white-primary bill, the word got to the legislature. At week's end, the legislators quietly adjourned the session without passing the 3% sales-tax bill that would pay for M. E.'s road, hospital, education and old-age benefit program. A new legislature would not convene until after the general election...
Neither war, rationing, nor the advent of the atomic age had altered U.S. teenagers' preoccupation with malted milk, two-hour telephone calls and jukebox music. All had kept right on jiggling. But with draft boards apparently locked up for good, and the bubble-gum market bullish, teen-agers were now devoting more time to the complicated business of acting their age. Certain postwar changes in tribal custom, language, taboos, wooing, peculiarities of dress and methods of transport were evident...
...first Elizabeth had ridden high on the surging tide of the Renaissance to guide England to its golden age of literature and discovery. The beachheads of the future Empire were won by Bess's indomitable sea hawks, "singeing the Spanish King's beard" in continental harbors and on the Spanish Main. Even Queen Anne, lonely, dullwitted, and forever conniving with her disreputable friend Sarah Churchill, had labeled an age with her name and marked some imperial milestones. After Anne, England's next Queen was a demure little German Princess of 18, who stepped out of a life...
Yellow Glare. At 18 the heiress to the throne came of age, imperially, ready to assume the Crown if her father died. As a private person she would not come of age for three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing...
...arrival of the atomic age has given the layman a profound respect for science, if any symbolic meaning can be attached to a recent incident on Quincy Street...