Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...types and size of next year's H-bomb production, this year's first test flight of an experimental intercontinental ballistic missile, every year's ceaseless, questing reappraisal of the three-inch-thick strategic war plan that is the blueprint for U.S. survival before an atomic-age equation: one plane plus one bomb equals one city...
...atomic-submarine power plant (about as much as a World War II light cruiser), $8,000,000 for an intercontinental B-52 jet bomber (as much as 42 World War II 6-175), $3 billion for an intercontinental missile program that will usher the U.S. into the costlier age of space...
...continues in a tone which is apparently meant to be highly serious. The writing in the last act is made up of the worst sort of pseudo-poetic prose, studded with such obesrvations as, "Life is a prostitute and death is a whore." The images employed are weak with age, except for a few borrowed from T.S. Eliot. Mr. Wulp, in short, quite effectively succeeds in turning his comedy to junk...
Well, I never interviewed anybody before in my life, and I was scared stiff. I sat there admiring her for a few seconds, and finally she volunteered the information that she wasn't really 22 in May, but another quite surprising age that she made me promise not to tell...
...center, which will be conducted at the University's School of Public Health, will study the responses of the human body to extreme speeds, altitudes, temperatures and toxic agents, and will carry on research in the prevention and control of the increasing dangers of the air age...