Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monument on which he had laid his flowers bore the names of Los Niños Héroes-six teen-age cadets who died when U.S. troops took Chapultepec in 1847. According to defiant legend, five had stabbed themselves rather than surrender to the invaders from the North. A sixth had leaped to death from a parapet, wrapped in the castle's battle flag...
National Selected Morticians, Inc.. a "professional group" with headquarters in Chicago, considered the atomic age and was appalled. The average undertaker has probably never seen a Geiger counter, but it was obvious that he would soon have to face the problem of radioactive "remains." In hushed tones, on tiptoe, and with the little finger sympathetically but gracefully extended, as always, Mortuary Science, the magazine of National Selected Morticians, Inc., prepared the "funeral-service profession" for the worst...
...life. . . ." "The great captain of all victories, Comrade Stalin." "Comrade Stalin, the creator of all our victories!" "Coryphaeus of science." "The greatest learned man of our age." "Stalin, the will and intelligence of millions." "Author of the most democratic constitution." "Our beloved father, friend of the working classes, the wise leader Joseph Stalin." "The most beloved teacher of the Soviet people, Joseph Stalin." "The greatest and most beloved man-our own Stalin." "Stalin's genius lights up our road. Stalin is our force, our faith, our happiness...
...critic had to excuse Toscanini's present by recalling his brilliant past. In this season's memorable 13 broadcasts, the Maestro has put on -and carried off-demanding programs that would have taxed conductors 30 years younger. He has not taken things easier because of his age, and he did not allow anyone else to either. In a business where wrath is an occupational privilege, Toscanini is still the tyrant of them all. Last week, rehearsing Brahms, the Maestro joyfully sang melodic passages with the orchestra in his croaky voice (which is often audible on the air)-then...
...what Author Bates has to say on this age-old theme is neither novel nor especially interesting. Apart from its dramatic narrative, the book's impressive qualities are those of Bates's best short stories-a fine perceptiveness in matters of wind, weather and atmosphere, displayed in clean-cut, economical prose...