Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...framework that has been imposed on them and that they have accepted, even though they know it is false and unhealthy." He does not qualify these generalizations by quoting the people he categorizes, nor does he attempt to make their bitterness understandable with even a thumbnail sketch of the age-old conflict between Irish Catholics and British Protestants. The book's narrative begins in August 1976 with the founding of the Peace People movement, but Deutsch gives only passing, superficial treatment to the history of bloodshed and tragedy...
...only 58 years of age, they argued the new pontiff will probably enjoy a long reign, which would keep the Church from facing the instability of a papal death in the near future. Furthermore, they said, the election of a non-Italian--especially a cardinal from Eastern Europe--might well free Italy's Christian Democratic party from the almost incestuous ties with the Vatican that many experts believe have limited its political freedom in recent year...
Horner said, however, that because of the scarcity of openings for tenureship, the non-mandatory retirement law for professors, and the expected decline in the college age population, she is not optimistic about an increase in the nation-wide number of women professors...
When he began playing football for the Rosedale Jets at the impressionable age of seven, Tom Masterson acquired the nickname "Bat" from his TV-watching teammates. Eleven years later when he arrived at Harvard and suited up for freshman football, backfield coach Ralph Ceseri began calling him Bat on the first day of practice and from then on so did his teammates...
...Head of the Charles gives boats from colleges, clubs and high schools a chance to compete in one regatta. Youth and veteran events provide age-group competition--some high school oarsmen are as young as 14 or 15, while scullers in their 70s compete in the veteran race...