Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what promises to be a high scoring contest, the varsity will struggle against the single wing, an outmoded anachronism in this age of the quick opening T formations. With the proper personnel, however, it is a formation capable of moving slowly but inflexibly towards the goal line through any opposition...
...solemnity and color." Even the Communist Party had to agree that Soviet weddings could hardly be more drab. Izvestia, carried away with the monotony of it all, even offered prizes for those who could think up elaborate and colorful rituals to substitute for Christian baptism, a coming-of-age ceremony that would correspond to confirmation, and a new wedding ritual...
...than a video air as he and Walter Pidgeon do a delightful soft-shoe dance, or as he says: "There are 14 saloons in this town, and I've never set foot in one of them-the one on 4th Street." But Actor Pidgeon, with his plaintive middle-aged joke in Staying Young, and Robert Morse, with his just-right teen-age theatrics in I Would Die, and Eileen Herlie, hilariously spinsterish about the facts of life in I Get Embarrassed, are refreshingly personal rather than professional in their way with a song...
...last six years, the Army Quartermaster Corps has been boasting about steaks, eggs, and other perishable foods preserved by the glamorous atomic-age process of putting them in plastic envelopes and shooting gamma or beta rays through them. The foods looked fine, tasted pretty good, and they could be kept edible without refrigeration practically forever, because all the microorganisms in them had been done to death by radiation. The Army proudly fed irradiated meals to newspapermen, top brass, and 20 Congressmen. Last week, with some embarrassment, the Army announced that it was shelving a $7,500,000 irradiated-food plant...
...Yehudi, 43, is the more famous of the Menuhins, there is plenty of evidence that 38-year-old Hephzibah shares his gifts. An infant prodigy like Yehudi, she was discouraged by the family from following a concert career, but was allowed to play occasionally with her brother in teen-age recitals that astounded critics with their power and perception. When she was 18 she married Lindsay Nicholas, brother of Yehudi's wife Nola, and retired with him to a 24,000-acre sheep ranch in Australia. Hephzibah returned briefly to the U.S. and European concert circuit in 1947, carefully...