Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many expected that the villa, the gardens and the collection might all be turned into a museum. But for Von Hirsch collecting was a magnificent obsession. Thus before he died last November at the age of 94, he set aside a few personal bequests and then decreed that the rest be sold in order to give others a chance to vie for the treasures that nowadays are rarely seen outside museums...
Remembering those who happen to be untitled or obscure, Prince Rainier invited Monaco's 4,000 citizens over the age of 21 to a champagne reception-a magnanimous gesture for a father who continued to hope that his daughter would change her mind...
...teammate, Goalie Pieter Schrijvers, who was carried off on a stretcher. The score was now Italy: one goal up, and Holland: one goalie down. That might have decided things; Italy is the kind of team that can hang on to a one-goal advantage till the next ice age. But in the second half Holland moved its star, Johan Neeskens, up from his defensive positions and threw everything into the attack. The deadly Brandts, a one-man soccer game, struck again, this time in the right direction. The score was 1-1 and the Dutch added another booming goal before...
...games, and by scoring only five goals and winning only two games in the entire tournament. During the enchanted years of the great Pele, Brazil won the World Cup three times-1958, 1962 and 1970-but the marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian true believers never really caught the rhythm, and Pelé himself, at 37 too old to play championship soccer, and too recently the best player...
...since 17 X 19 = 323). If a code breaker wanted to decipher the secret message, he would first have to factor the product-in other words, extract the original two prime numbers that are the source of the decoding key. But even in the computer age, factoring, which can involve trying out seemingly endless combinations of numbers, is an extremely time-consuming process. While it may be easy to factor a low number like 323, Rivest calculates that if the product were, say, 200 digits long, it would take even the fastest and most powerful computers millions of centuries...