Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 4.1% of the population were 65 or over; now these "senior citizens" account for 8.4%, and by 1980 they will make up 10% to 15% in a nation of about 225 million. But the boon has brought with it some perplexing problems-medical, social, economic. In Ann Arbor last week at the University of Michigan's annual Conference on Aging, the only such regular meeting in the country, 700 experts from the medical and social sciences put their heads (many greying) together to see what could be done in making Browning's vision a reality. The consensus...
...home town Brockton, Mass., retired Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano, 32, never defeated in a professional bout, lay flat on his wrenched back in a hospital. The winner and new champion: Marciano's daughter Mary Ann, 3. As far as Loser Marciano could explain, he had injured his back while engaged with her in a game of catch-in which Mary Ann was the ball...
...Ann Pollard stands outside art history. The anonymous artist plainly forgot himself and what little he may have known of artistic conventions the moment Dame Pollard's basilisk stare fell upon him. He painted her neither as a tender dream, like Margaret Gibbs, nor as a fleshly reality, like Thomas Smith, but as an apparition. Shrewd as J. P. Morgan, straight as Queen Victoria, she rises out of the night, holding her book like a scepter. The ancient well merited her haunting memorial. One of Boston's original settlers, she bore twelve children, kept a tavern and lived...
...ANN WALDRON...
...took their turn. Africans received the jazz coolly until Royal Garden Blues stirred them up, and soon 30-odd tribesmen were doing jivey steps to the riffs. "Did you see that little old plump woman?" said Louis later. "When she danced, man, she was just like toy mother Mary Ann...