Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carey made his bid: a resolution to bar Communists from union office. It never came to a vote. By a landslide majority of 2,827 to 679, U.E. delegates substituted a plank guaranteeing "every member all rights and privileges . . . including the right to hold any position . . . regardless of craft, age, sex, nationality, race, creed or political belief...
...Dowager of the Royal Family denied a report that she had signed a seven-year movie contract. "I wouldn't sign a seven-year contract with God," she exclaimed in her famed rich Barrytone. "No-you'd better make that 'only with God.' ... At my age it would be ridiculous...
...Partly a statistical illusion, because 1 ) the average age has increased, and diabetes is largely a disease of middle age; 2) deaths formerly attributed to heart disease, arteriosclerosis, etc. are now correctly diagnosed as caused primarily by diabetes. The U.S. diabetes death rate hit its peak in 1940, dropped off slightly during wartime when overeating was less prevalent...
...that Conant is wholly occupied with Harvard's adjustment-in science, international studies, social relations and citizenship-to the Atomic Age, some of his former Washington associates wonder if that is the most useful spot for him. In retrospect they are more than ever impressed with his facility for learning "through the pores," for quickly grasping human as well as scientific problems-and they are quietly talking about Conant's presidential potentialities. Nobody has asked Jim Conant what he thinks, but at 53 he still has a zest for adventure...
...divorced persons after one year, by referring their decision to "impediments," in the presence of which the Church considers the previous marriage no true marriage. The impediments: consanguinity; mistaken identity; mental deficiency "sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice"; insanity; failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; impotence; perversion or venereal disease undisclosed to the other party; bigamy; a concurrent contract inconsistent with canonical marriage (such as a "companionate marriage" agreement); fraud; coercion; duress "or such defects of the personality as to make competent or free consent impossible...