Word: ageing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recession, unemployment, and some essential naysaying, Diefenbaker has managed to keep the voters on his side. The Gallup poll reports that 54% of the Canadians like the Tories-exactly the same proportion that voted for them a year ago. Reasons (as reported by Gallup) for the Tory popularity: old-age pensions, the government's record, and the buoyant, aggressive personality of John Diefenbaker...
...wonder drug is discovered, the news is hailed as another step toward a hygienic utopia in which disease and premature death will have no place. Not so fast, says one of the world's top authorities on infectious diseases and a pioneer of the antibiotic age; disease is an aspect of man's adaptation to his environment, and as his environment changes, so do his diseases-but they do not disappear. In Mirage of Health, published this week (Harper; $4), famed Microbiologist René Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (though no physician) applies laboratory...
...hued evils, well-scrubbed and enameled enigmas. His art gives vividly the same confusing message that he once put into words. "Life," Salemme wrote, "has infinite doors to beckon with, and each day reveals new doors, and men continue to pass through new doors, and we live in an age when men are no longer content with discovering new doors, but have begun to close them and erect them around themselves. But there is no escape from the door that all doors lead...
Today no one lifts an eyebrow when his neighbor shows up in a foreign car, and no one need explain or apologize for driving one. With thousands of war babies coming of driving age and crying for their own cars, countless families have found the foreign car an inexpensive playmate for Junior-and a less precious article to entrust to freewheeling Mom. The number of two-car families has grown to 17% of all car owners. Now the three-car family is coming along; there are an estimated 375,000 such families...
George's father went broke five times, ended up as a builder in Salt Lake City. From the age of twelve, George worked to help support the family, still found time in high school to play football, basketball and baseball. There he met one of the few people ever to make him speechless: a stunning brunette named Lenore Lafount. Even for parents used to the mysterious fixations of adolescence, George was a caution. He decided that Lenore was the girl he was going to marry; just as he later could not understand why people hesitated to buy Ramblers...