Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countrymen," Ike began, "and the friends of my countrymen wherever they may be ... We seek peace. And now as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself. Yet this peace we seek cannot be born of fear alone. There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples. There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak...
Where the Money Goes. Reflecting population growth and the increasing costliness of Atomic Age armaments, the last three Eisenhower budgets have trended upward, but economic growth has kept receipts sloping upward too. The forecast of a 1958 surplus assumes that the economy will go on booming this year, enough to bring in an added $3 billion in taxes...
...area is also badly overcrowded, especially in the younger age brackets. Compared with the city average of 24.2 children per acre, Neighborhood Four has about one acre of land for each 53.5 children. Play space is at a minimum...
...gang is formed chiefly on the basis of geographical proximity. The ties of the neighborhood are strong, and those established at school or elsewhere are insignificant. At virtually every age level from eight to 21 you can find some sort of gang functioning somewhere in the city. Many are not formed until high school, while some begin much earlier. Just this year a gang of nine-year-olds in Neighborhood Four successfully carried out many thefts and was finally apprehended while pulling off a highly-organized burglary of a local house...
Many experts had believed, for example, that membership in a gang was a primary cause of juvenile delinquency, but the Gluecks discovered that nine-tenths of the delinquents show their earliest anti-social symptoms before the age of eleven, whereas boys do not usually join gangs until they are in their teens...