Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When psychiatry became the vogue several years ago, we were told to handle the teenager with kid gloves-"he's a sensitive adolescent"- ad nauseam. It's now grown to a frightening overemphasis via the movies and TV, which cater to the teen-age audience, and too often justify violence and sadism...
...sprinkling his copy with superlatives ("They served us a wonderful breakfast. The bread was a delicious grey color"). There was one bloodstained breach in Batista's hospitality. Reporter Neal Wilkinson was sipping coffee across from the presidential palace when police caught up with a group of teen-age rebels who stopped a few feet from Wilkinson. One cop turned on Wilkinson and, disregarding his cries of "Americano," clubbed him about the face and body, pursuing him until he reached the sanctuary of his hotel...
...over double drinks in a Manhattan bar, he struck up a partnership with Henry Louis Mencken* that was to last through two decades and make Nathan's byline famed on Main Street as well as on Broadway. Together they became the scorpion-tossing twins of Jazz Age journalism. On Nathan's Smart Set (1914-23), Mencken's old American Mercury (1924-33), and the short-lived American Spectator (1932-35), the slim, elegant Nathan and hulking, tousled Mencken battered at boneheads and "dingdoodles" (Nathan's pet epithet for self-satisfied know-nothings). When Mencken died...
With a whine of turboprop engines, a fat new airliner quickly gathered speed at Hagerstown, Md. one day last week and took off on its maiden flight. The plane was Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.'s F-27 Friendship, the company's jet-age answer to the problem of replacing the hundreds of aging DC-35 still hauling passengers and cargo on U.S. airways. At $590,000, Fairchild's new aircraft will carry almost twice the load (40 passengers) at half again the speed (more than 280 m.p.h.) twice the distance (1,700 miles), and accomplish the task...
...abnormal for that time of year, and occurs only during recession periods; the winters of 1949 and 1954 both brought similar jumps. The reason was that most of the new "laborers" were not normally members of the labor force; they were the wives and teen-age sons and daughters of the laid-off family breadwinner, out looking for jobs to help tide the family over...