Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...age of eight, Darwin muttered to his father, who was playing in a sedate foursome, "let us beat those beasts." He remained a partisan zealot the rest of his life. In 1929 the British ladies champion Joyce Wethered was five down in a match to her American counterpart, Glenna Collet. Before she sunk a putt that proved the turning point in the contest and enabled her to go on to victory, Miss Wethered noticed Darwin in the gallery and recalls that "his face wore an expression that was a mixture of fury and dejection." Darwin took no solace...
...Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized in Tom Brown's Schooldays, to be the great builder of the moral of the age...
From the soaps to Broadway. It's enough to make a girl say "Leapin' lizards." Which is just what Search for Tomorrow's Andrea McArdle, age 13, does in her new role as Little Orphan Annie. The Broadway-bound musical Annie, now playing at Washington's Kennedy Center, also stars Actor Reid Shelton as the magnanimous Daddy Warbucks and Unknown Canine Sandy as Annie's faithful mutt. Making his production debut with the play is Actor and Director Mike Nichols, who saw it in summer stock and was smitten. "It's a sweet show...
...doctoral thesis at Johns Hopkins University, found that "there are more negative stereotypes for math-gifted girls than boys," and that mathematically apt girls "seem more willing to sacrifice intellectual stimulation to social stimulation." Other studies have confirmed that girls' interest in math plummets at around age twelve, when adolescence makes them more aware of social roles...
...before the account starts. The only personality the reader gleans is the narrator's tireless urge to search. He is no one in particular, looking to be somebody--anybody. His search is timeless. The setting and the sense of ceaseless frustration speak to the citizens of a corporate age...