Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phase out the limit on how much Social Security recipients can earn without sacrificing any of their benefits. At present, if a "retired" person under the age of 72 makes more than $3,000, he loses $1 in Social Security benefits for every $2 he earns above that amount. The House voted to raise that ceiling to $4,000 in 1978, $4,500 in 1979, $5,000 in 1980, $5,500 in 1981. In 1982 it will be abolished. Democrat Al Ullman of Oregon argued against the phaseout. Allowing high-income people like doctors and lawyers to collect both their...
...naturally superior to his handshake. During an Italian-American street festival in Chambersburg, N.J., Jimmy Carter had to prompt the Governor?and candidate?to climb onto a chair with him so he could be seen by the crowd of 15,000. Then, while Carter waved exuberantly, Byrne could man age only a stiff-armed salute. "I think I am a little less of an extravert than most politicians," he admits...
...passed down through the generations in neatly tied packets-wrinkled currency stiff with age, smelling faintly of the lemon verbena that scented great-grandmother's chiffonier. "Save your Confederate money, son," the vainglorious slogan insisted. "The South will rise again." It took a century and a Southerner in the White House, but the time has come. With chitlin chic upon us, once worthless Confederate bills have become a gold mine for Rebel diehards...
When vacationing German Brewery Worker Erwin Kreuz ends his stay in San Francisco this week and returns to his home in Adelsried, he will complete an exceptional jet-age odyssey. It began when his World Airways flight touched down in Bangor, Me. A disembarking stewardess walked past Kreuz, and wished him a "pleasant stay in San Francisco." Startled, he left the plane and went through customs. But then he kept on going, hailing a cab and, without any knowledge of English, reached a hotel...
Other Freudians say that because women traditionally associate the open streets with prostitutes and the danger of rape, agoraphobia can be a coded fantasy for illicit sex, a replay of the child's sexual attraction to her father during the Oedipal stage (starting around age...