Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young wife of an antique dealer. Although the composer always contended that their love was platonic, hundreds of steamy letters, discreetly tucked away in the local Janáček Museum, seem to belie his claim. The affair inspired a unique musical outburst. By the time he died at age 74 (some say while pursuing a woman through a nearby woods), Janáček had written four blazingly original operas, orchestral pieces and chamber music and the immense, superbly spiky Glagolitic Mass, a pantheistic hymn...
...technique to sometimes include tightening up the muscles underneath the skin of the neck and jaw to give more striking and lasting results. If all goes well, the facelift will last for from four to eight years before noticeable sagging recurs, depending on the patient's skin tone, age, weight, eating and drinking habits and other factors...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's assistant for National Security Affairs, after arriving late at a party: "I had to practice my belly dancing. One must be prepared in the age of the ERA. You never know when you might be called on to perform...
...their rematch with the Yankees, two games to zip. Young Welch's achievement vindicated the old-fashioned Dodger way of baseball: scout the hinterlands for raw talent, groom it carefully down on the farm, then bring young players up to the parent club to fill the gaps that age and injury inevitably open during the long, hot summer. Of a 25-man roster, 13 are onetime Dodger farm boys. In contrast, the Yankees built their team by spending big bucks on the free-agent market and have only six home-grown players on their squad. The Yankees can field...
...beginning is prehistoric. Grass's fisherman and his fellows live in a matriarchy, cared for and suckled by the three-breasted Awa. In this age before Prometheus, women have stolen fire from the gods and rule through the cooking pot. But the Flounder, "like a swimming newspaper," gives man the crucial information that begins male domination: fire can also be used to smelt metal from rock, and metal can be forged into spearheads and axes. Thus is born man's wanderlust, his will to strive and conquer, his ability to make myths and reason to tragic absurdities...