Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eleven years of relentless Communist-indoctrination of the satellites' youth, in schools, workshops, clubrooms, gymnasiums, in cafes and across kitchen tables, has failed to capture their imagination or loyalty. The demonstrators in Poland, the fighters in Hungary were largely people who have come of age under Communism...
...last government job, Beveridge had felt secure about having enough gold for his golden years: "I was able to take with me for superannuation enough pounds to feel fairly happy for my future. Now each of those pounds is worth six shillings, eight pence. Our plans for useful old age are all going haywire . . . Like many others in their seventies ... I am in danger of living longer than I can afford to live...
...useful movement of frozen joints and wasted muscles after the disease had done its gnarling and crippling work. Lately there have been major advances, largely through new and daring surgical techniques. Typical is the case of Angelina Ferrara, who was severely crippled by Still's disease at the age. of nine. Her knees were bent and could not be straightened; her elbows were straight and could not be bent; her hips were bent and frozen. Last year, aged 25, Angelina was taken to the arthritis clinic at Manhattan's superbly equipped Hospital for Special Surgery. There she scored...
Frans Hals, father of 14 and no mean tosspot himself, attacked the canvas with all the enthusiasm of his age, disdaining preliminary sketches in favor of a bold, direct approach with brushes loaded with paint. In later ages, the elegant powdered peruke of the 18th century looked askance at Hals's clearly visible brush strokes. But French 19th Century Painter Edouard Manet grasped Hals's secret of laying colors side by side, used it for his own bold compositions and made the technique a cornerstone of French impressionism...
...shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing constraint that heralded the approaching Victorian era. He died in 1834, aged only 59 but thankful to have seen the last of a "damned, canting, unmasculine, unbawdy age." Mary, ten years his senior, outlived him by 13 years...