Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another, the injury is permanent. Even the most expertly reconstructed knee will loosen in time. And with age, arthritis is likely. The obvious answer is to avoid such injuries in the first place. Protective knee braces are available, but they dramatically restrict a player's mobility. Replacing stadium turf with artificial grass in which cleats are less likely to catch also promises help. So do shorter cleats. Some doctors insist that the knees of all youngsters who turn out for football in high school should be examined so that the weak and injury-prone can be weeded...
...fifth of the U.S. population, the risk of dying before age 35 is four times the U.S. average. In this group, adults have four times as much disabling heart disease, ten times as much visual impairment, six times as much mental illness, mental retardation and nervous disorder. This one-fifth constitutes the nation's poor-40 million Americans, by the Government's admittedly rough estimates...
...defendant is sentenced to serve one year of Sunday church services." This, in effect, is the improbable verdict frequently handed down in a Miami court, where, for the past 18 months, Metropolitan Court Judge Thomas E. Lee has presented guilty teen-age speeders and pot smokers with the alternatives of a fine, a jail term-or a year of church services. Of the 125 teen-agers offered the choice of sermons or sentences, nearly all have decided to serve a stretch in the pews...
Watteau often painted such personalities in commedia dell' arte costumes, for the masquerade was the sign and symbol of his era. To capture its magic, the Flemish-born painter had run away to Paris at the age of 18, then studied with Stage Designer Claude Gillot and Interior Decorator Claude Audran before striking out on his own. The times cried out for a chronicler. After the aged Sun King, Louis XIV died in 1715, French society, under the leadership of the dissolute regent, the Due d'Orleans, gave itself over to a rabid pursuit of pleasure, rivaling that...
...struck, and that it was up to him to capture both its gaiety and its unreality. Certainly he knew that his own gifts were fleeting. For the last ten years of his life, he knew he had tuberculosis. Gilles, painted just a year before he died at the age of 37, is an unwitting testament and self-portrait, with the artist borrowing a clown's clothes and a friend's face for the final masquerade...