Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand & Interesting." The shrillest greetings to 1948 came from the official trumpets of world Communism. Boomed Moscow's Pravda: "The age of capitalism is approaching its end." Russian kids, despite Marxist disapproval of all fairy tales except the Marxist one, crowded around Santa Claus (who in Russia is called Grandfather Frost and calls on Jan. 1-see cut). The Moscow radio started the year by broadcasting the cries of a newborn baby. "We don't know your name yet," cooed Announcer Yuri ("The Golden Voice of Victory") Levitan, "but we know you will have a grand and interesting...
...Age of the Cock. The vast machine which now huffed & puffed for British Socialism was a monument to the steam-powered, grandly gambling free enterprise which had made Victorian England rich. It started in the 1780s, when a friend wrote to James Watt about a fellow inventor: "He has mentioned to me a new scheme which ... he is afraid of mentioning to you for fear of you laughing at him. It is no less than drawing carriages upon the road with Steam Engines. ... He says . . . that there is a great deal of Money to be made...
Tiny Portion. The U.N., said Lie, had accredited Nicolas Kyriazidis as a correspondent representing Greek Communist papers, and Syed Sibtal Hasan for the Communist People's Age of Bombay. In failing to consult U.N. before arresting them for deportation, Lie felt, the U.S. had ignored its agreement with...
They labored against heavy odds: in an age of disappearing palaces and severely plain public buildings, there is little incentive for carving statues. Except for a handful of men like Jo Davidson, who get fancy commissions for portraits, monuments and fountains, nobody makes big money these days out of sculpturing...
Criminals, clergymen, clerks, teachers, students, prison inmates, men of various types and ages were interviewed and urged to tell all. As a result of the tabulated testimony, Kinsey concludes that 85% of the total U.S. male population has premarital intercourse; nearly 70% has relations with prostitutes; between 30% and 45% has extra-marital intercourse; 37% has some homosexual experience between adolescence and old age, with the highest rate among single males...