Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from whence this outrageous outburst of outgoings? The flushings of my toilet training stage that now descend upon my head, the leavings of an age...
...Ward was singing the gospel tune Peace in the Valley; in her fervor, she tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha had the spirit, all right; after her first solo in church at the age of twelve, excited parishioners crowded around her father, saying, "Oh, that child can sure enough sing...
Even at the eight-item counter, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company's 4,730 stores will be hard pressed to match President Byron Jay's own express checkout. Three weeks ago, only 13 months before reaching A. & P.'s mandatory retirement age of 65, Jay ended a 41-year, up-from-clerk career with the nation's biggest food chain by 1) chucking the $151,000-a-year job he had held since 1964 and 2) packing himself off to deep seclusion...
Instinctively Wary. Ahmanson's growth was as phenomenal as that of Southern California itself. The Omaha-born son of the owner of a small insurance company, Ahmanson had built a $20,000 stake in the stock market by age 18, moved west to sell fire insurance, took to buying up foreclosed property during the Depression when, as he recalled, the "worse things got, the better they were for me." And when things got better for Ahmanson, they were fantastic. Deep in both S & Ls and real estate when the California building boom hit in the 1950s, Ahmanson profited from...
...love to be like a beacon fire lighting up the darkness, not a timid refuge from the cold as it is very often . . . Oh, I am happy, happy, happy." He passes with equal vagueness from his second marriage to Dora Black and the first joys of paternity at the age of 49 through the divorce and into his third marriage to Patricia Spence when...