Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thurmond's age has become an unspoken issue of the campaign. But the trim, fit Senator, who can do as many push-ups and sit-ups as his years (75), effectively defuses the issue with the help of his 31-year-old wife Nancy, a former Miss South Carolina. All summer she barnstormed the state in a van dubbed the Strom-Trek with their four young children, ages two to seven, who wear T shirts emblazoned VOTE FOR MY DADDY...
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...mean to suggest that the sixties were a decade without myths--I doubt whether any moment in history is without myths--but I do mean to suggest that the sixties were a decade that made life hard for a lot of old stories, an age that way full of an awareness of ugly, unavoidable realities...It was not that popular films had suddenly become false, for they had always been false. Just that they had become too false, false enough to upset the old, careful truce between wishes and facts." --Michael Wood, America in the Movies...
Studies by such groups as the World Health Organization and the World Bank have noted a sharp drop in the peak age of child malnutrition in these areas as a result of the "alarming" decrease in breastfeeding in the past two decades. Babies are now commonly suffering from the deadly combination of malnutrition and diarrhea--often caused by bacteria-infested, diluted or ill-prepared formula--as early as three to six months after birth. In light of the fact that the critical period for brain development is the first two years of life, this situation is indeed tragic...
...National Basketball Association starts its thirtieth season on Friday, but all indications are that the league is behaving like a spoiled teenager rather than showing the maturity of middle age...