Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slot or two-or more-on his family tree, the man then arranged with Chinese brokers in such places as Hong Kong to sell his slots to willing Chinese for prices ranging from $2,500 apiece to $6,000. The broker found on his lists a Chinese whose age approximated that of a registered son, sent him on to the U.S. Once there, the newcomer often became virtually an indentured servant until he paid for his slot, frequently was harassed by extortionists and informers who threatened to expose his illegal entry unless he paid blackmail...
...Calif.) High School and found students taking a snap course called "coed-cooking." Asked Kendrick of one coed-cook, a boy who hoped to become an engineer: "How are you going to apply this to a career as a scientist?" Said the would-be American technician of the Space Age: "Say in three years or so, I will be out on my own and I will want to cook something on my own. I mean, I will know how to cook it. I mean. I will know all the measurements and that kind of stuff...
...Oppenheimer's contributions to the development of the atom bomb are well-known. There is little doubt that he could today render valuable service to America's dismal attempt to find her place in the sun in the Sputnik Age...
...Billy Graham is simply stone-age," he laughed condescendingly. His Radcliffe date lapsed into silence at this, and he quaffed the rest of his scotch with an indulgent chuckle...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14--The House agreed today to vote tomorrow on a $548,226,000 authorization bill for emergency space-age defenses...