Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, to no one's surprise, friendly, middle-of-the-roader Beauford Jester smacked out a home run to win the ball game with a two-to-one majority. His chief campaign promises: increased old-age pensions without increased taxes, a hearty welcome for all shades of warring Texas Democrats. To Rainey's last-minute charges of Ku Klux Klan backing, he quipped: "He has lost his fast ball, he has lost his curve ball. All he's got left is a mud ball...
Between times he took sun baths in a pair of bright green trunks, began reading Arthur Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson. When the yacht anchored in Delaware Bay he went swimming, employing a sedate sidestroke which enabled him to keep his glasses unsplashed...
Like many another able, honest politico, Governor Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut found himself last winter well on into middle age (52) with little or no money in the bank. Wherefore he decided-definitely, he said-to give up public life and work for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company at $30,000 a year, with prospects of becoming president of the company at $75,000. But people wondered: could Ray Baldwin really bring himself to give it all up-a prospective seat in the U.S. Senate and further opportunities to serve his country in a great period of history...
Some outside scientists, planning for the atomic age, smile at the old Smithsonian. But others are slightly envious. Smithsonian researchers do not have to teach. Their work, though it often proves useful, need have no practical applications. And out of their blameless labors will come no demons, no man-made plagues, no bombs or poisons for the world to exorcise...
...education, more education and still more education of U.S. citizens to what he calls their atomic-age responsibilities...