Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college that wishes to help its students enjoy the "Age of Leisure," to say nothing of success in business or politics, should not neglect physical education in skills of lasting value: golf, tennis, fly-casting, squash, etc. The advantages of such a program are recreational, social and eventually material...
...best popular song around, though, is Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange" with intriguing lyrics and an exceptionally frantic instrumental background of electric guitar notes effectively capture the spirit of the age. Songs with more --- lyrics are Hadda Brook's "Old Man River" and Bob Cort's "It takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Blues...
Since the end of World War II, the Van Doren trust has grown bigger yet as the children of the five Van Doren brothers, nine in all, came of age and began to produce children of their own-17 of them...
...virtual musts at the next consistory-to Archbishops Griffin of Westminster, Koenig of Vienna and Montini of Milan-there would be only seven vacancies to fill many demands for new cardinals. Thus it would be wiser to wait till more openings occur. "There are several cardinals of advanced age," as one prelate put it delicately, "and despite the most charitable hopes, they cannot last much longer...
Lockless Canal. De Lesseps was a doer in private as well as public life. He married twice and fathered 17 children (the last when he was 80). At the age of 74 he eagerly met the challenge of Panama, and the result was a fiasco. Age had bred in him not mellowness but arrogance. Yellow fever, corruption and his own stubbornness (he insisted on building a canal without locks despite the mountains and rivers the waterway must cross) ruined the project after ten years of exhausting labor. De Lesseps was forced to admit defeat, and only the selfless courage...