Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Check the Wool." During this summer's siege against juvenile delinquency, a key police department unit is the youth squad, 144 detectives who cruise New York City's five boroughs in unmarked sedans and concentrate on teen-age activities and spots of action. Routinely the youth squad checks bars for underage patrons, community centers, parks, dances and picnics for teen-age trouble. Swiftly they check out tips on approaching "rumbles," i.e., fights between New York's organized gangs. After one such tour with Deputy Inspector Peter Costello, youth squad commander, and Detectives William Kelly and Frank Rochman...
...coming "end of the world": "In this atomic age," said Dr. Francis D. Nichol, editor of the Adventists' Review and Herald, "we hear frightened scientists and many others beginning to use a phrase that formerly appeared to be the monopoly of Adventist preachers...
...their ostracism from the Beaux-Arts' controlled annual Salon exhibition (the art mart of its day), the impressionists were men of their age. "Their poverty irked them especially," Bazin points out, "because it prevented their living that normal life, that stable existence, to which they aspired. It was quite different with Gauguin and Van Gogh. It was these two lunatics who started the rupture between the artist and society. To the 20th century they were the models for geniuses beyond the law, possessed by superhuman power, which . . . laid them...
...Cities, from which, in the Globe Book Co. edition, "nonessential parts of the plot" are excised, and "long descriptive and philosophical passages" are abridged. One of the nonessential parts: Dickens' ringing opening sentence-"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity ..." The Globe Tale begins as simply and unmemorably as a badlands bang-banger: "On a Friday night late in November, 1775, the stagecoach . . . from London to Dover was toiling slowly...
...unprecedented use for hypnosis-as an essential part of anesthesia in open heart operations-was described by Beverly Hills Anesthesiologist Milton J. Marmer last week. The result, Dr. Marmer told the A.M.A. convention, was to permit the use of chemical anesthesia so light that one teen-age patient could be awakened while the lower right chamber of her heart was open. After the drastic surgery, she made a good recovery with only slight pain...