Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennessee's Senator Albert Arnold Gore. Looking ten years younger than his age (48), Gore is personable, an aggressive speaker, and owns a consistent liberal voting record in both House (1938-52) and Senate. A strong advocate of expanded foreign trade, he helped write this year's highway-construction bill, was a leading Democratic critic of the ill-fated Dixon-Yates contract, called vigorously for a real investigation of the lobbying scandal on the natural-gas bill (but accepted party discipline without public complaint when he was shunted aside as chairman of the committee investigating lobbying activities...
...protein foods can lead to cirrhosis of the liver and vitamin-deficiency diseases. (The "fabulous formula" is essentially the same as a diet designed to produce liver disease and hardening of the arteries in laboratory experiments with animals.) Cutting down on proteins is especially dangerous for those in middle age and beyond: they need more protein, not less; also, they need less fat, not more...
...maturity and youth. Musically, it's between Bach and Handel, and between Debussy and modern jazz. The real meaning of Meistersinger is Sachs' lament: 'Fools, fools, all of them fools.' The young growing up to be foolish, and the old. like Beckmesser, becoming foolish despite age. It was always done as a nationalistic, Nazi show, and I hated it. Now I've done it as I felt it should be performed...
...through the night and on into the morning the Times waited for what it hoped would be an eyewitness report from Times Madrid Correspondent Camille Ci-anfarra, traveling aboard the Andrea Doria. "We ought to get some good cover age from Cianfarra," said Catledge. But the story never came. Sleeping in his cabin, Timesman Cianfarra, a veteran of more than 25 years, was killed instantly by the Stockholm's ice-crusher bow, along with his daughter...
...Stone Age did not decorate their caves with animal drawings for pure love of art. The drawings had a purpose: they were the central images in religious rites. In the newly found cave there are no drawings of deer, and the Abbe Breuil thinks he knows why. His guess: "The occupants of the cave probably regarded deer as their mythical ancestors. They were forbidden to kill and eat them. So there was no reason to use any charm, such as cave paintings, to attract deer...