Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARMED FORCES Something for a Scabbard The U.S. Army, grimly aware that its historic role and mission will be obsolete in the missile age, last week publicly wigwagged its hope of latching on to both a new weapon and way of life. To New York Timesman James Reston the Army passed the word that it had presented to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff a plan to produce an operational anti-missile missile* by 1961. Cost: between $6 billion and $7 billion. Name of the proposed missile system : the Army's Nike-Zeus...
Britain's aging (78) Author E. M. Forster spoke out to the London Magazine on the subject of aging: "I reserve the right to be frightened at the thought of my own death and to mourn the deaths of those whom I have loved or haven't even known. The present century has become too curt over bereavement just as the 19th century was too expansive over it." Who really knew how to mourn? "The Greeks. They wept, they recovered, they recalled." What is old age? "Both by its practitioners and by its observers, it is approached...
...Leopold's mental health are supported by more general statistics. Murderers have by far the best parole record of any group of criminals, with less than one half of one per cent returning to prison. In addition, the over-whelming majority of criminals is totally reformed by the age of thirty-five; Leopold is now fifty-five...
...College women are keeping the liberal arts alive in this age of scientific emphasis," asserted Mrs. Wilma A. Kirby-Miller, Dean of Instruction at Radcliffe. Speaking at a meeting in Agassiz sponsored by the Radcliffe Parents of Boston, she justified her assertion with the fact that more than half of Radcliffe majors in the humanities...
...couple lose their only son to the mysterious war of the white men's raj and begin to lose their health, sanity and land as well. Then they are told to apply for equally mysterious pension checks, thus making their son the poignantly ironic staff of their old age. The title tale Mooltiki has a hint of Disney. Mooltiki is a kind of reluctant dragon among lady elephants. She rumbles and grumbles audibly while stoking the mighty campfire with logs. She would rather blow bubbles in the river or clutch a flower in her trunk than be a proper...