Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boost teacher salaries, build more roads, increase old-age benefits, extend already liberal state services...
...contributed 850 francs each to rent a bus. Six withdrew, so the price was raised by 210 francs each. How many people finally formed the group?"* The result of the exam: 55% of the 200,000 flunked. French psychologists promptly erupted: "It is detestable," said one, "to advance the age of anxiety in such a manner." Said the Paris-Presse: "They have created a competition for little monsters." Last week Education Minister René Billeres backed down, promised to give the flunked eleven-year-olds a more eleven-year-oldish exam...
...only five years ago, and industry is arriving-an ice plant, two shoe factories, two ice-cream plants, two carpentry shops, a small shipyard on a nearby island. Said Tecuala's proud mayor: "Literally, I have witnessed our emergence from the dark ages into an age of light...
Died. Frank Trumbauer, 56, goateed hot saxophonist of the Jazz Age, musicmaking crony of the late great Cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, and wartime test pilot; of a heart attack; in Kansas City...
...This is an age of the world when nations are trembling and convulsed . . . and is America safe? Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion . . . Oh, Church of Christ, read the signs of the times...