Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fargo, N. Dak. (TIME, Sept. 30), had refused permission for the Faubus side to cross-examine Government witnesses. (Faubus neglected to mention that he had refused to answer a summons to appear in Judge Davies' court, or that his lawyers had walked out on the showdown hearing.) Teen-age girls had "been taken by the FBI and held incommunicado for hours of questioning while their frantic parents knew nothing of their whereabouts." (Said FBI Director John Edgar Hoover: Faubus was "disseminating falsehoods...
...generations, to the often unconcealed horror of doting aunts and grandmothers, well-heeled young Britons have been bundled off to boarding schools at the tender age of eight or nine to learn to be young gentlemen in a manly atmosphere free of the influence of mothers and nannies. Last week, in similar fashion, Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip took their eight-year-old son Charles by the hand and delivered him over to Headmaster Peter Beck at Philip's own alma mater, Cheam, one of England's oldest and most tradition-encrusted preparatory schools...
...Germans flocked to their churches to pray, some ten vessels of half a dozen nations fanned out into the stormy sea, and a dozen aircraft joined the search. It was no ordinary ship, buttressed with armor plate, throbbing with power and bristling with the safety devices of a modern age, that faced the furies of Hurricane Carrie some 500 miles southwest of the Azores, but a tall and graceful relic of an older and braver day: the 3,103-ton, four-masted bark Pamir...
Wrote Dr. Fisher in the monthly Canterbury Diocesan Notes: "Sin is an offence against God. Its measurements do not vary from age to age as man's laws do ... So then, whatever from time to time the criminal law may say, homosexual offences are sins; the life of a prostitute is a life of sin; the men, many of them regarded by themselves and others as reasonably respectable citizens and certainly not criminals, who add their own sin to the sin of the prostitute are sinners ... A crime is a different matter, a sin against society and social order...
Yalies of age to indulge must apply to the New Haven town clerk, accompanied by birth certificate and photograph, for a purchase license. The Harkness bells were silent...