Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manpower, the Army has drastically tightened re-enlistment standards, tried hard to retrain its misfits the world over. Moreover, the Pentagon is readying legislation for Congress ensuring that only those men "who have an effective job performance potential" will enter Army ranks through the draft. In the nuclear age, the Army has discovered, even the truck drivers and the supply clerks must be ready to fight effectively...
...jungle swamps of Tanganyika, the Aga Khan was a holy figure, held in unquestioning esteem. Born in Karachi of Persian parents on Nov. 2, 1877, of a line that claims direct descent from the Prophet's daughter Fatima, young Mahomed Shah became Imam of the Ismailis at the age of seven, when his father died...
...were also behind his being named President of the League of Nations in 1937. Rich beyond calculating (or telling), conscientious enough to perform the duties he was born to without stinting, eager enough to seize on the privileges that were his without questioning, the Aga Khan belonged to an age that was out of step with the newer egalitarianism. Last week, by the terms of his own will, his Imamate passed to a young man born and trained to a different kind of age...
...view of the fundamentally altered conditions of the world," the old Aga Khan wrote in his will, "I am convinced that ... I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed in the midst of the new age." With these words, the Imamate of the Ismailis passed over the heads of the Aga's playboy son Aly and his younger brother Sadruddin and landed on the shoulders of a sobersided young Harvard-man named Karim Khan, Prince Aly's eldest son by his first wife (an Englishwoman previously married...
...speak he was heckled by a group of empire-minded Tory diehards (seven were evicted). Macmillan pitched his arguments to their prejudices: he knew that they fear the diminution of Britain's stoutly held independence and deplore the retreat from empire. Said Macmillan: "Anybody of my age [he is 63] who looks back upon his life must reflect with sorrow on what Europe has done to itself in that time. Twice in a generation Europe has torn itself apart in bitter, internecine struggle. By this means (let us face it) the nations have largely destroyed or at any rate...