Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church calendar, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the killing, by order of King Herod of Judea, of Bethlehem's children under the age of two years. Herod's aim: to kill the newborn Jesus Christ, heralded as the new King of the Jews...
...Perhaps at my age, in any case," wrote Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, 62, "it is wise to curtail one's activities." What moved her to the reflection: five months after she had dozed her way into a smashup (TIME, Aug. 26), New York State got around to taking away her driver's license...
...Deaver turned to a small figure with blue-ribboned braids in a small wheelchair. "Come on, honey," he said. Five-year-old Maureen Eagan (paralyzed by polio since the age of two) gravely slipped out of her chair, toddled shakily across the floor and fell into the doctor's arms. Said Deaver, as she buried a brown head in his shoulder: "She's going to walk as well as anyone...
Worried by the teacher shortage, Philadelphia's public schools were ready to accept teachers with only two (instead of four) years of training, also suspended the customary retirement age of 66. Maine scouted for overage teachers retired by other states...
Peroy, French-born University fencing coach, came to America in 1909 at the age of 23, already the holder of a Parisian foils title. While working in New York City, he took all honors from novice to senior, at the New York Amateur Fencing Club, in less than a year...