Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the ending of the Tombstone Law dictated the precise timing of the marines' departure, all three had another reason for retiring before the mandatory age of 62: they had been passed over when President Eisenhower named Major General David Shoup, 54, to become Marine Corps commandant effective Jan. 1, 1960. Explained General Megee in Honolulu: "I am retiring because of the feeling that when the Defense Department selects a junior officer for the top spot, it is best to show loyalty by stepping aside...
...September-was to go to England to study. The son of a slave freed by French Roman Catholic missionaries, Edward herded cattle until he was nine, then, as his father's "love son" (or favorite), was sent to school. Converted to Catholicism, he ignored most of the various age rituals of the Masai (e.g., Masai aged 17-27 take turns sleeping in the communal hut with the tribe's unmarried women), frankly admitted: "I didn't want this big job, but I took it because someone...
...daylight, the tinkling of silver bells and the aromatic incense of another age vanished like a mirage in the Kara Kum Desert. A Red flag flapped on the 203-foot-high summit of the Great Minaret, from which for centuries cruel khans and emirs had cast their enemies to their deaths. Over the main gate, in Russian and Uzbek, Maclean read the inscription: Town Soviet. Elsewhere he found decay and neglect. The miles of covered shops in Central Asia's most fabled bazaar had dwindled to a handful of grubby stalls, and only a few of the city...
...crumbling ruins, Maclean recognized a deliberate Communist policy. Because the powerful mullahs of this age-old Mohammedan stronghold had resisted Sovietization, the city had been sealed off and left...
...age of jets, the answer is still unclear and the problem increasingly acute. To date, in the absence of international agreement, offenders have been prosecuted by arrangements (sometimes of questionable legality) between the individual countries involved, or have gone scot-free because no court could decide on jurisdiction...