Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born into a military family (his father, Arthur, was a Navy captain), MacArthur chose the Foreign Service at the age of twelve after a Far East trip on which he was impressed by U.S. consular officials. At Yale ('32) he studied history and economics, played guard on the 1931 football team captained by Eli's "Little Blue Boy," Albie Booth. MacArthur entered the Foreign Service in 1935, served in Vancouver, Naples, Paris, Lisbon and Vichy, where he was interned by the Germans in 1942. Exchanged 16 months later, he encountered a Vichy official, gave a pointed reason...
...from a hazy, indiscriminate obscurity when the eulogists started talking about them. And so Fred Allen's death brought remorse to "Stop the Music" and the commercial sensationalism which he had fought all his life. It also brought new life to Fred Allen as a symbol of a dying age...
Archie Moore was led away, the light-heavyweight title still tenuously in his hands. The factor that helped to lick him -age-offered the new heavyweight champion of the world a fancy future: his best bouts and biggest purses (this one: $114,000) were still ahead. "Patterson has the potentialities of a great fighter," said Archie when he found his tongue. For the first time ever, the gaudy pitchman was guilty of astonishing understatement. What the sport needed next was some men good enough to take on the young and growing champ. The man most fitted for the assignment: Retired...
Like Editor Amberg, some news executives now even run names of parents of juvenile criminals, plus their occupations and marital status, to illustrate their belief that teen-age crime is not necessarily a product of broken homes or economic distress but reflects a widespread breakdown of moral values...
...states have relied on special residential schools, where the blind live and learn only among their own kind. Then, in the 1940s, hundreds of premature infants, though saved by incubators, were stricken with retrolental fibroplasia and blindness because of an overexposure to oxygen. As these children grew to school age, the integration movement finally got going in earnest. Today, scores of cities across the U.S. are now giving sightless children a full chance at a normal schooling...