Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly there are many jobs in the Army which require special aptitudes. However, even in this atomic age, most of the jobs held by enlisted men of the lower pay grades do not require a high degree of technical skill. The most important qualities of a soldier are now, and always have been, physical fitness, and a receptiveness for discipline...
...sultans decided to choose among themselves by considering each in the order of his precedence, and crossing out the words "suitable" or "unsuitable." Their most senior, His Highness the Sultan of Johore, the world's longest-reigning monarch (since 1895) had declined the post because of his age (83). First up was the fun-loving Sultan of Pahang, who was rejected by his colleagues by a 3-to-6 vote, perhaps because his most recent romantic excursion wound up in a Moslem wedding to a Kuala Lumpur cabaret girl (TIME...
...bathed by parents, often of the opposite sex, until adolescence. Children sense at bathing whether a mother's close inspection of the genitals is an honest, brief, physical necessity or an anxious, seductive maneuver . . . Sleeping with children of the opposite sex is prolonged into the teen-age period. The mother may still continue to lie with the son, despite awareness that erections occur." Beyond this is a wide range of openly seductive behavior, from varying degrees of physical intimacy to incest...
Most U.S. couples are now planning the size of their families, and the size they are planning for, on the average, is three children. So reports the University of Michigan, after a survey of 2,700 women living with their husbands and aged 18 to 39 (this age group includes 94% of the nation's child-bearing women). At this rate, noted Survey Sociologist Ronald Freedman, the baby boom will continue: it would take only 2.2 children per couple to maintain the population at its present level...
...convalescence. Instead, Robert chose to go back to his ancestral home in tiny Viridis in the somnolent wine country of the Garonne, where he hoped to marry relatively unsophisticated Paula de la Sesque. "Only with Paula beside him could he have accepted with equanimity the threat of advancing age...