Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homer Capehart finally got the floor: "After making the statement which the Senator has just made ... I should think he would be utterly ashamed of himself, being over 21 years of age, and a capable man who has made a great success in business-I do not know how many millions-to say publicly, in the presence of schoolchildren and others in the galleries, that the President of the U.S. has no brains...
Beyond such subterfuges lie the opportunities of the literacy and constitutional tests themselves. In many Alabama counties in 1956, Negroes were told to give their age in years, months and days, were deprived of the right to vote if they were one day off; in Jefferson County, Ala. the Negroes were asked constitutional questions, such as on what date did the Tenth Amendment become effective, or on what date did Oklahoma become a state. Even in moderate North Carolina, a Negro woman in Northampton County was put to reading the state constitution and was disqualified when she "mispronounced several words...
...behind was the big winner herself: Miss Universe (Peru's Gladys Zen-der-36-23½-36) dismayed the contest backers because she is just three months under 18, the minimum eligible age. But after hurried hotel-room conferences, the judges decided to let Miss Universe keep her title in spite of the technical cloud...
...train is a violent method, but this gives us a chance to study parts of the mechanism." He hopes that his tortured eggs will teach physicians how to counteract prenatal infections which sometimes result in the birth of defective children. As the world moves deeper into the atomic age, there is increasing danger to human embryos from radiation. Dr. Wolff's experiments may lead to discoveries which will minimize the effects of such radiation on generations yet unborn...
...Public Health Service's Dr. Alexander Langmuir saw increasingly good results ahead: "With increasing immunization of the population under 40, a steady reduction in paralytic cases can be confidently anticipated." Denmark, long hard-hit by polio, had the brightest progress report: 99% of children up to the age of nine and 90% of all Danes aged ten to 40 have had shots, and the disease now occurs only sporadically. Around the world, 75 million people have had one or more shots of vaccine...