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Word: ager (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Privileged Class. In Milwaukee, before Detective Charles Littnan arrested a 19-year-old he was chasing on suspicion of burglary, the boy shouted back: "You can't shoot me. I'm a teen-ager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

After reporting that the President's daughter-in-law likes golf, dancing and horseback riding, one Indian newsman wrote delicately that "it is therefore hardly surprising that, though a mother of four, she has the figure and complexion of a teen-ager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Mother in the Spotlight | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...time she entered high school, Anne was a slick, style-conscious teen-ager -far more "sophisticated" than she is today-with a great interest in the boys. But always Mamma was there to keep her in check. "Once," says Anne, "my mother caught my older sister having sneak dates and beat hell out of her. I didn't want a licking, so I didn't do too much of that." And another time, when Annie smoked a cigarette onstage in an amateur production of Night Must Fall, her Aunt Kate yelled terrifyingly from the back of the hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...stage of St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium ranged in age from 13 to 60. Some of them were housewives, others were students, disk jockeys, dentists, engineers. But when Guest Conductor Edouard van Remoortel rapped them to silence and led them into Beethoven's Egmont Overture, housewife and teen-ager played with astonishing competence. At the start of its 100th season, the St. Louis Philharmonic demonstrated again what its admirers have long claimed-that it is the finest non-professional orchestra in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Family Orchestra | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...transformed into a postulant-a snappy little Spanish teen-ager with an Irish face (Carroll Baker) and something of a Bronx accent. The Tempter appears as the usual dashing dragoon (Roger Moore). The Reinhardt visions are reduced to a banal catalogue of wide-screen wonders, filmed in what is apparently intended to be glorious Goyacolor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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