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Word: ager (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not require much space, and the reader is given only four or five pages between wry smiles. If the book is used as night-table literature, even the weariest citizen cannot achieve unconsciousness without meeting, say, the indignant wife of Federico the upright thief, the witless teen-ager who lives to dance, and the impassioned auto-accessories dealer who smashes his car for love. If the reader is the least bit wakeful, he goes on to meet Consolina, the servant girl who admires blond men and Clara, the fortuneteller's fickle daughter. The face begins to ache from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rome on Wry | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...common but is usually not severe. Only rarely does the virus of three-day measles lead to pneumonia or brain inflammation. But it may occasionally be fatal. Last week three children's deaths associated with the current epidemic had been reported from Chicago, and a Connecticut teen-ager had died of encephalitis. Less predictable and less understood is a complication among adults: pain in the joints, sometimes so severe that it is compared with that of rheumatoid arthritis, though it lasts only three to seven days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: German Measles Epidemic | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...core of the pilot project this sum-the teen-ager an edge in finding a job," mer will be a set of skill courses to "give Clifton said. Courses in small appliance repair, office machines and practices, lawn and child care, and consumer selling will be included in the curriculum. TEST will also set up a labor pool to serve as an "embryonic" employment agency, Clifton said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Sets Up Teen-Age Job Training | 4/18/1964 | See Source »

...WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis as a kept woman in a peignoir looks about as sophisticated as a teen-ager wobbling in her first pair of heels. Later, clutching a closetful of balloons, she appears about to take off, which this delightfully wacky comedy does from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 27, 1964 | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis as a kept woman in a peignoir looks about as sophisticated as a teen-ager wobbling in her first pair of heels. Later, clutching a closetful of balloons, she appears about to take off, which this delightfully wacky comedy does from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 20, 1964 | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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