Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate seat of the retiring Walter George, piled up a four-to-one margin over onetime Acting Governor Melvin Thompson, in the process carried every one of the state's 159 counties-a feat his daddy could never match. Winning an election at a relatively early age in a state accustomed to sticking with its Senators, this new breed of white-supremacy demagogue could well be a fixture on Capitol Hill for years to come...
...student of international relations and ethnology, I can say that TIME'S Aug. 20 illustrated article on the Mediterranean was a journalistic masterpiece. It is no secret that-even in this international age-Americans have an extremely limited knowledge of the world they live in. The fine maps that accompanied the treatment of each great Mediterranean civilization were excellently suited towards remedying this situation...
...identified easily after many thousand years. Pollen grains are especially useful. Birch pollen found at a certain level of an ancient peat bed is proof that the climate was cold when the peat was formed. If the peat is dated by its carbon 14 content, the actual age of the cold period can be determined...
...with 19 separate assignments in 28 years of service. Newcomer Gordon improved Carville's physical plant and administration, but set out to change the hospital's famed, widely admired system. He ordered the hospital staff to stop fraternizing with patients, discouraged visits by the public, upped minimum age for visitors (other than relatives) from twelve to 20. The worst blow to patients: a ban on games, sports, and dances between patients and nonpatients...
...gave her hostage to fortune in their one child. Wells, who grew up to write a novel while at Harvard, was killed in action as a U.S. officer in World War II, at the age of 27. In his childhood he was shuttled between expensive pillar and posh post (King George V "saluted" him as he rode in London's Rotten Row) until he came to look at his famous father with a cool eye. He would brace himself to lecture him on the evils of drink only to find the unpredictable Hal had become his sober, fascinating self...