Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise in napoleons is not hard to find, even though France is enjoying good times and has even hung on to the same Premier (Socialist Guy Mollet) for six months now. Two weeks ago the Mollet government gave France the bad tax news to accompany the increase in old-age pensions that the Assembly recently approved. This will add $400 million to the tax bill, to be met by surtaxes on salaries, by an added six francs on the price of every aperitif, and by a special tax on automobiles, rigged to discriminate against U.S. cars. (Cars with less than...
...Basques are fiercely proud of being a distinct ethnic group, different in origin and language from all other Europeans. Some ethnologists consider them a remnant of the peoples who inhabited Western Europe in the Stone Age, long before the prehistoric Indo-European migrations from the east. In the complex Basque language-so difficult that, according to a Basque proverb, the devil himself failed to learn it in seven tries-stone is aitz, knife is aizto. Though basically a mountain folk, Basques make good seamen, like to point out that the pilot of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria...
Atomic radiation is dangerous, and as the atomic age develops, the danger will increase. This is the conclusion of the National Academy of Sciences (TIME, June 25), and the public is justified in taking it seriously. But in many parts of the world, the atom is being blamed for ills that it could not have caused, and for some that do not exist...
...responsible physicist or meteorologist believes that atomic explosions have altered the world's weather. The Report of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences says: "No statistically significant changes in the weather during the first ten years of the Atomic Age have been found . . . Although it is not possible to prove that nuclear explosions have or have not influenced the weather, it is believed that such an effect is unlikely." British, German and Japanese scientists agree...
...Dangerously irreligious." For Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, who died in 1936 at the age of 72, life's true meaning lay in what he called "agonic struggle." His religion, he once said, "is to struggle with God." And he carried on the struggle in a setting of "transcendental pessimism." Man's heart craves God and immortality, he held, but his intellect can never prove their existence. Therefore, "let life be lived in such a way," Princeton's Mackay paraphrases him, "with such dedication to goodness and the highest values that if, after all, it is annihilation...