Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviets chose wisely when they delegated Hya Ehrenburg for a mission of good will and report-age in the United States. Ehrenburg is a brilliant pamphleteer and propagandist extraordinaire. Throughout the war his talents, more popular than scholarly, were employed in pouring out some of the most effective anti-Nazi word weapons that the Allies produced anywhere. In his "Izvestia" articles, Ehrenburg is once again on the home field, giving America the treatment it must continue to expect from the Russian press, with the bite of dogmatism this time tempered by the author's individual and uncollectivized analytical abilities...
...kind friends enlightened me. . . . The gossip in Washington had been that 1) I was having a nervous breakdown, 2) I was dying of cancer and 3) I was about to get married! Somehow or other these things do not go very well together, and though I realize that my age might give rise to the first two, it certainly should preclude the last...
...latter-day Magellan could still be "the first to burst into that silent sea." No atomic-age Hernando Cortés would pose as a god to a modern Montezuma. Geographically, the world had been pretty well raked over. The only sizable blanks remaining were near the Poles, and they were mostly wastes of ice & snow...
Prizes to Find. Other prizes lie in New Guinea, where stone-age" fuzzy-wuzzies, ignorant of the outside world, live in high, cool "white man's country...
Predicting a tremendous increase in passenger and freight aviation, he said that the coming age of air transportation might change the face of the country "as much as the Ford Model T changed it thirty years...