Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them of Mediterranean and Asian origin. Victims of this genetic disorder can usually be kept alive by regular blood transfusions. But because the body is not easily able to rid itself of the iron added by repeated blood donations, it accumulates to such an extent that by the age of 20 the heart, liver and other organs can be threatened. Looking for a way to remove the excess iron, the Rockefeller scientists turned to bacteria and fungi. In the course of billions of years, these tiny organisms have evolved complex molecules that gather up iron essential for their survival...
...peace and understanding. He did-but only to a point. Denying the industry's basic complaint that the Administration's complex plan does not offer enough in the way of incentives for increased fuel exploration, the Energy Secretary insisted that the program would bring on "a golden age" for the energy companies. Yet at the same time, Schlesinger blasted the oilmen for perpetuating "myths" and "paranoia" about the plan, adding almost mockingly that they seem "to believe that all the folks up in Washington have it in for the industry...
...America settling down in middle age...
...mother recalls, "he made all the arrangements himself. The first I knew about it was when he brought me the papers for permission." Quinn was all of 14 at the time. With similar single-mindedness, he progressed through the ranks to become an archbishop at the relatively young age of 43. Last week in Washington, John Raphael Quinn, now 48, was elected president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops-in effect, leader of the nation's 49 million Roman Catholics...
Social life picked up in her teen-age years. She plunges into vivid accounts of coconut shies and garden parties, the technique of hat painting and cheating on one's dance card. In the myriad detail of the book is an irresistible ingenuousness. When she achieved her first success as a thriller writer, she bought a car. "I will confess," she says, "that of the two things that have excited me most in my life the first was my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen about forty years later." There follows a paragraph...