Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Church off Silence": Is it not Christ's will that this Pope, in whose heart is deeply engraved the history of his own nation from its very beginning, and also the history of brother peoples and neighboring peoples, should in a special way manifest and confirm in our age the presence of these peoples in the church and their specific contribution to the history of Christianity? He [the Pope] comes here to speak before the whole church, before Europe and the world, of those often forgotten nations and peoples. He comes here to cry "with a loud voice...
...Europeans with long memories would quarrel with that freeze-frame assertion; it seemed to crystallize the strong new sense of national identity and self-confidence now emanating from Bonn. Long reluctant to exercise a leadership equal to its political and economic strengths, West Germany has finally come of age as a Continental power. Much of the credit for this belongs to Helmut Schmidt. More than any other postwar Chancellor since der Alte?the late Konrad Adenauer?Schmidt has shouldered his way into the front row of international leaders and has increasingly shown that he is not afraid to play...
Schmidt originally planned to be an architect. Instead, in 1937 at the age of 18, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served with an antiaircraft unit that fought on both the Eastern and Western fronts. After being commissioned a first lieutenant, he was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and held as a prisoner of war for six months in Belgium. Earlier, he had joined the Hitler Youth, as did every other boy in his school. His submissive stance is said to have privately troubled Schmidt in later years. Returning after the war to the devastation of Hamburg...
...month study, the doctors monitored 296 women up to age 76 who had undergone mastectomies. From tissue samples physicians found that three-quarters of the women had estrogen-linked tumors. These patients, as well as the others whose cancers were not connected with the hormone, were divided into three treatment groups: one was given a combination of drugs known as CMF; another CMF and tamoxifen; and the third CMF, tamoxifen and BCG (which is designed to bolster the immune system...
These were qualities that little Gladys Smith of Toronto apparently had at age five, when, after her father died, she started to act in stock companies. Under the guidance of her mother, the ultimate stage mom, she trouped her way out of the provinces to New York City. There Theatrical Producer David Belasco named her Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith, her first film director, began shaping the image from which she never quite escaped. "Through my professional creations," she once said, "I became, in a sense, my own child." She was not permitted her first romantic screen kiss until...