Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here were the force, the threat, the promise of the future. In their giant shadows, 45,000 ft. tall, all men were pygmies." The cover showed a small face of Harry Truman, a man caught and dwarfed by the might of the new Atomic Age...
Since then, as before, TIME's Man of the Year has often symbolized powerful human effort in the age-old will to freedom. In 1949 Winston Churchill was chosen Man of the Half Century with these words: "That a free world survived in 1950 . . . was due in large measure to his exertions." Last year, as the battle flared in Central Europe, the Man of the Year was a nameless, single-minded Hungarian Freedom Fighter...
...outdated as the medieval moat. In the House of Commons last week British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd patiently explained: "With long-range aircraft, and missiles with ranges of 150 miles and more, it is impossible to disengage in the sense that may have been possible in the age of conventional weapons." The choice, said Lloyd, is between a clearly defined line, "it being known on both sides that to cross that line means war," and a "no-man's land, into which it may be tempting to infiltrate, to try some kind of coup in the belief that undefended...
...station house. Obligingly, the police let Kahler get into a black sheath cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform before the Crosshatch shadow of prison bars...
...over gender: "Gimme a closeup for her," and a second later, "Tighten up on his face." But with little show of emotion on his delicate features or in his contralto voice, chain-smoking Kahler gave a forthright, fascinating case history: his masquerade had grown so adept that from the age of 18 he had earned his living not as a female impersonator but as a woman and nightclub B girl. Wyatt's questioning brought out that Kahler had never known his father, that he came under the strong influence of his mother, "who had a lot of marriages." Kahler...