Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane was nearing 90° south, the point at which all meridians converge, from which all directions are north-the mathematical bottom of the earth. A featureless snow desert stretched away into a glittering white nothingness below. Then, incongruously, there was sudden evidence of man and the machine age. Tracks cut deep into the snow marked the routes of skiers, sledges, tractors and ski planes. Where they converged was a cluster of orange and tan huts and mechanized equipment...
...young man, Guy Desnoyers wanted more than anything else to be a surgeon. But there was no money in his family to pay for long years of medical education, so after brooding for a while over his lost dreams. Guy. at the age of 29, turned to the priesthood. As the abbé of the little village of Uruffe in the Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, he became a dynamo of public service, always busily organizing youth groups, a theatrical society, football team and other worthwhile projects. On Sundays, his sermons crackled with reproof of parishioners less disposed to such...
...from jubilant, what with a loathed egomaniac in command, a succession of murders and suicides, the discovery that full-scale atomic war has broken out on earth, and the knowledge that the rocket ship itself is almost surely doomed. Playwright Oboler seems indeed to be prophesying that the atomic age may end up with man as extinct as the great...
Swedish Compliments. These days were wonderful fun, and Rossby's weather system worked. It became the model for use by fast-spreading U.S. airlines. When not too busy, Rossby kept up with the hard-boiled pilots in jazz-age drinking and other festivities. Most of them envied his way with women. "It was his Swedish manners," says one of his friends of those days. "He'd hold the hand of a nightclub hat-check girl for several minutes, ladling out those Swedish compliments. If it was any other guy, the girl would have called the manager...
...date 1939, however, has another significance: it was the start of World War II, during which meteorology suddenly came of age. It was quickly apparent that the war would be fought largely in the air. with weather often the controlling factor. Storms would put whole air forces out of action. For surface forces, clouds and fogs would be all-important shelter...