Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average 40 years of age, they are moving front and center to key posts of their companies, communities, professions. Two months ago Ohio Judge Potter Stewart, 43, a lieutenant aboard a Navy tanker in the North African invasion, became the World War II vets' third U.S. Supreme Court Justice, after Brennan and Harlan. (On the bench they sit with five veterans of World War I: eight of the nine Justices have seen wartime military service...
...Aided by financing and free education, veterans quickly overtook nonvets their own age in earning power (from 15% behind in 1946 to 19.5% ahead in 1956). G.I. education boosted incomes enough, reckons the VA, to pay back its $14.5 billion cost in extra income taxes by 1970. Vets not only caught up on the old standard of U.S. living but became a mighty force in kicking off the postwar boom in consumer durables by founding the new suburbs, filling them with TV sets, home dryers, cars. Cartoonist Bill (Up Front) Mauldin, like many of his lesser-paid buddies, now treats...
...optical equipment), went on duty in the Navy's purchasing offices, found that the torpedo sight his company was mass-producing for the Navy was useless. His blunt honesty in forcing fast cancellation of the contract so awed company officers that they later made him its president at age...
...widely held suspicion of De Gaulle, more prevalent outside France than in, stems not from anything De Gaulle has done but from what he is. In an age that makes a cult of ordinariness, he is a democrat but not an egalitarian. In a world in which power suggests danger, he openly regards the wise exercise of power as the supreme function of man. Where most mid-20th century statesmen feel obliged to cloak their extraordinary qualities in a mantle of folksiness, he unabashedly regards himself as a historic figure and comports himself as a man of greatness...
Marshal Pétain. "In spite of everything, I am convinced that in other times Marshal Petain would not have consented to don the purple in the midst of national surrender . . . But alas! under the outer shell, the years had gnawed his character. Age was delivering him over to the maneuvers of people who were clever at covering themselves with his majestic lassitude. Old age is a shipwreck...