Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jingoism got a big lift when I read about that increasingly famous institution, the Hingham town dump, an out-of-door cracker barrel where you meet your friends and neighbors of a Sunday [March 30]. Our youngest son, at the age of four, used to ask every out-of-town guest in true booster fashion, "Have you seen the dump...
...seven had in common medium height (5 ft. 11 in. or less, to squeeze into the space capsule) and medium age (32 to 37-old enough to have the required experience in the air and engineering, young and fit enough to explore the unknown). Six sported crew cuts, four were their fathers' namesakes. Each was small-town-born, married, a father (one to four children), an active sportsman, a Protestant; each expressed an intimate love for the skies and an abiding faith in the heavens. Yet they were individualists...
BECAUSE of the demands of their assignment the seven Mercury Astronauts have age, size and background generally in common. But equally important are their dissimilarities, for the Astronauts are individualists...
...Englishman of the Nuclear Age, convinced that Britain is "a one-shot target," war is so fearful a prospect that it is unthinkable. "There have been a good number of plans for what we should do in an atomic war," says a former British government official. "They all add up to the impossibility of engaging...
...show must admit kinship to Kukla, Fran and Ollie and Walt Disney, it is still the healthiest baby in the TV nursery. Brigid Bazlen claims no professional antecedents at all. Daughter of Chicago Fashion Commentator Maggie Daly Bazlen (Brigid's father is dead), she began at the age of ten with a part in an ABC network soaper called Hawkins Falls, lasted 2½ years before she was tapped for Puppeteer Nellé's show. A miracle of poise on camera, the Blue Fairy is still a refreshingly down-to-earth teen-ager offstage. Celebrating the Peabody with...