Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full-scale investigation of the Administration's missile policy, said bitterly in an Austin, Texas speech: "The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads. Later−when men moved to the sea−the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age, we were powerful because we had airplanes. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. It is not very reassuring to be told that next year we will put a 'better' satellite into the air. Perhaps it will even have chrome trim and automatic windshield wipers...
...Bind. Responded Queen Elizabeth: "In Virginia, I was reminded of the early beginnings of the U.S. and of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Here in Washington, so often a focus for the aspirations of the free world, our thoughts turn naturally to the future. The Jamestown Festival commemorates an age of discovery and exploration. There are many indications today that we are at the beginning of a new age of discovery and exploration in the world of human knowledge and technology. Only a short time ago these unexplored areas of human knowledge seemed as impenetrable as the forests of this...
...year-old novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher, editor and Resistance leader was decorated with literature's Legion of Honor, the 1957 Nobel prize, for "clearsighted earnestness which illuminates the problems of the human conscience of our times." Not since Rudyard Kipling received the award in 1907 at the age of 41 had it been granted to so young...
...Devil, before a splendid red background decorated with gold stars. Michael has caught the Devil cheating by tipping the scales, and sadly points a shaming finger. Yet to be discovered is the lesser devil compounding the crime by tugging on the weight devil's tail. In an age of crusades and pilgrimages, when Christians intensely fought the struggle between the legions of Christ and the forces of evil from the age of reason until the very moment of death, the note of humor in the scene probably was lost on most of the people who knelt by the altar...
...placed St. Peter's relics. All that remained, buried at the rear of the grave niche, were a few bones. The Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures about the bones or about additional excavation −the account ends. Archaeologists Toynbee and Perkins conclude only that "at least since the 2nd century, the belief [that St. Peter's bones lay in the Aedicula] has been...