Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpainted, poster-plastered little hut of a cafe outside the Gregg County seat of Longview in East Texas, a handful of teen-age Negroes drank soda pop, danced to the music of a beat-up jukebox, chattered happily just because it was Saturday night. Suddenly the cheerful inside noises were smeared by the snarl of a car outside, a sputtering of shots ("like a string of firecrackers," said one witness) and a scream...
...Nasser extremists passed the word to start a nationwide strike against the regime. But long before dawn broke Wednesday, Hussein had sent loyal Bedouin troops with tanks into all the Palestinian strongkolds. Amman itself swarmed with blackened Bedouins in tanks and armored cars. Out came the demonstrators, mostly teen-age schoolboys, their teachers hustling them along like anxious sheep dogs. In the post-office square (which Americans nicknamed Riot Plaza), crowds began rhythmically clapping hands and chanting: "Down with the Eisenhower Plan!" and "Long Live Nasser!" The marchers threw stones at the police, who warded them off with basket-weave...
...marriages (v. 25% in the U.S.). Social attitudes, and the teachings of the Established Church, still make for disapproval of divorce, and contributed to Princess Margaret's decision to reject marriage with Group Captain Peter Townsend, not so much because he was a commoner or nearly twice her age, but because he was divorced...
...continuous, if sporadic, shooting war with Red China. Under Harvard-educated Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, a mainlander, a U.S.-styled recruitment and training program has been set up which in less than a year has brought in enough young native Taiwanese soldiers to lower the average age in Chiang's army from...
...testing missiles; its systems divisions are busy developing a line of data-handling systems for the military, the guidance control system for a new and as yet unannounced missile, a radically new communications system, and a series of electronic process controls to run U.S. factories in the coming age of automation...