Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very old age...
...visitor last week described an audience with MacArthur: "The performance was less exalted than I had expected. He has an avuncular sort of friendliness and at the same time maintains the dignity of age and position. I cannot imagine another U.S. general lowering his voice and, staring musingly into the distance, saying: We may fail here, but all men who truly have religion in their hearts must believe that we can succeed, must stand with respect before the miracle of what has happened in Japan...
...Build-Up. All week long, Liberals and Tories tried to build up issues for the federal election. The government whipped through, without hindrance from the Conservatives, vote-catching items such as increased old-age pensions and baby-bonus payments. Earlier, the government had chopped income taxes, always good election bait. Both parties got together in Parliament's last days, for a unanimous ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty...
...along. Even the British press, in the recent past not so charitable about their great conductor's churlishness, blossomed with flowery lead editorials on the great day. Said the Times: "Music is the medicine of the mind and Sir Thomas . . . is among the best doctors of the age, combining high professional skill with a highly popular bedside manner." Said the Manchester Guardian: "Sir Thomas . . . has always been and will always be an individualist. Everybody, including those on whose corns he has trodden, will wish him many years of life to go on being...
Shaughnessey won the national title at the age of 14, has shot on every U. S. Olympic skeet team, and currently holds the world's 20 gauge record of 446 birds in a row. A "bird" is a hard clay saucer approximately five inches in diameter which is spun into the air much like a discus...