Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better off," said one worker. "Wage increases are as useless as fuzz on a frog," said another. Instead of higher wages, says Lubell, many steelworkers would prefer "additional fringe benefits, such as expanded hospitalization, paid-up insurance, and-the one demand with the strongest support-a lower retirement age with more generous pensions...
...India's biggest problems in creating more food is the population of 203 million cattle, most of which are regarded with religious reverence by Hindus. The sacred cows wander freely through Indian fields eating as they please, proliferating without restraint, dying at a ripe old age (in many Indian states it is illegal to kill a cow). Since they may not be eaten as food, they contribute little to the Indian food supply, of which they consume a great deal. If they cannot be killed, they might be sterilized, the Ford experts suggest...
...smaller than most boys of his age, and his early sicknesses made him weak and shy. Unable to compete in any physical way, he threw himself into school-work with burning enthusiasm, getting top marks in all his subjects. Not eager to let him get too far away, his parents sent him to Iowa Wesleyan, a small college right in Mount Pleasant. There he quickly attracted the attention of Professor Thomas Poulter, a first-class physicist...
...16th in line of descent from that renowned foe of the Greeks, the great King Darius of Persia. The world he entered in 132 B.C. was one in which royal parents freely poisoned their growing sons to prevent them growing too big-and with reason. At the age of 21, Prince Mithradates of Pontus imprisoned his mother, executed his brother, married his sister and mounted the throne...
...approached middle age, the self-styled "Liberator King" was master of an empire stretching from the Sea of Azov to the Aegean. Roman magistrates and military officers found themselves held captive in the king's dungeons, and finally, by order of Mithradates, some 80,000 Romans and Italians were massacred. It was too much. In 87 B.C. the renowned General Sulla set out with five legions to pull the thorn...