Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently asserted that there are 10,000 prostitutes in Budapest. In Poland, according to Radio Gdansk, there are 230,000 professionals. In a survey of Communism's old "ostrichlike policy," Salomon Lastik in Nowa Kultura reports that half of the prostitutes in Warsaw are below 25 years of age and of these one in three is not yet 18, proving them "a generation which has matured in the conditions of the People's Republic of Poland." Most juvenile prostitutes Lastik describes as the victims of "the prudishness of many persons emphasizing their 'socialism.' " He found that...
...bush was for the most part unaware of the rich potential of the land beneath his feet. There, waiting to be found by the white man, were some of the earth's greatest stores of precious gems, iron, coal, gold, tin, copper and tungsten for the dawning age of electricity, pitchblende from which the minerals of the atomic age would one day be refined, and scores of other metals...
...said that the recent success of the reserve training program has "surpassed the Army's most optimistic expectations." Under the present set-up, a young man between the age of 17 and 18 1/2 may serve six months on active duty and three years on ready reserve, and a man from 18 1/2 to 26 may serve six months on active duty and 5 1/2 years on ready reserve. The latter alternative has been very popular with college seniors and graduate students who preferred six months active service to two years, the normal term of a draftee...
Although he did not fence at Harvard, Breed, by the age of 35, had become one of the greatest foil and epee men in the country. In 1911, at 35, he won the national championship in both these divisions...
...night, hardly pausing to eat or sleep, tirelessly writing reprimands to his partners, agents and factors throughout Europe, begging them to act prudently, to "trust no man." Always, just as today, the last straw came in the form of taxation: "I shall see torn from me in my old age all that God has lent me . . . I have reached such a point that methinks, if a man stabbed me, no blood would issue forth...