Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...await the only Negro assigned to Harding High School (three others were sent to other schools). Mrs. John Z. Warlick, small, shrill wife of a truck driver, began whipping up excitement. "It's up to you to keep her out," she told teen-age boys. At 10:30 a.m., the crowd spotted the girl: Dorothy Geraldine Counts, 15, daughter of a theology professor at Charlotte's Johnson C. Smith University, was walking down the street with a friend of her father's. The crowd, screaming, swarmed around her. It taunted her, pointed at her hair, stuck fingers...
...Mikoyan felt about doing the Hungarian dirty work no outsider knows. A Briton who has lived long in Moscow says: "Mikoyan disappeared from the Moscow round from mid-October to the beginning of December. In those six weeks he aged ten years. He was drawn and haggard, and his skin was yellow when we saw him again. Instead of an old man looking young, he was an old man looking more than his age...
...twelve new boys in a student body of 90, Prince Charles, 8, heir apparent to the British throne, will get caned in the "customary place" if he doesn't behave, be limited to 35? a week spending money and will sleep with six or seven boys his own age in an unheated dormitory on a wooden, springless bed covered with a thin mattress. Said Queen Elizabeth II to her son when she saw the bed: "You won't be able to bounce on that...
MAJOR FRINGE BENEFITS by U.S. industry will top $12 billion this year, equal to 6% of total U.S. wage payments by private business. In 1956 alone, says Commerce Department, industry paid $5.71 billion for welfare and pension funds, $3.19 billion for old-age and survivors' insurance, another $1.85 billion for unemployment insurance, and $983 million for accident compensation...
...wrote three books, was a founder of the American Arbitration Association and served the Government in setting up state job-insurance programs. "I like to tell people that just making money out of a city and its inhabitants isn't the only thing to do." The inroads of age began to tell on Lincoln Filene two years ago. He no longer minded the store. But only when he could no longer recall the crowded days of a life nearly a century long did he retire, and then last month, at 92. One morning last week in his home overlooking...