Word: gaged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dirtiest, most contemptible, cowardly dogs that you can conceive." Less than two decades later, the Americans were to prove that estimate badly mistaken. Author Tourtellot's chronicle of Lexington shows that the British, to begin with, were reluctant dragons. Their general back in Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace was Samuel Adams, cousin of John, a dumpy, inquisitive politician who had left his job as Boston tax collector when his accounts were found...
Such shenanigans delighted the troops, but they did not always please British commanders-notably General Thomas Gage, whose light infantry showed up poorly in comparison with the bush fighters, who had become known as "Rogers' Rangers." Gage became Rogers' lifelong enemy, and years later, when the New Hampshire man commanded the outpost at Michilimackinac on Lake Michigan, Gage was to bring a wholly unfounded charge of treason against...
...trips he made to raise money, he was jailed for 22 months. His most ambitious moneymaking venture, which gave Novelist Kenneth Roberts the title for his book about Rogers, was to find a northwest passage to the Pacific. But debt, circumstance and such enemies as Gage kept him from searching for the ' overland route that the Lewis & Clark expedition found in 1805. During the American Revolution, he offered his services to General Washington, fought briefly for the British after he was turned down. After the war, in one of U.S. history's more jarring ironies, his name...
...Rhode Island College of Education did "an extremely careful job of estimating its actual need," explained President Gage, "and then we received only $165, a ridiculously small sum." In New England, grants ranged from Boston College's $54,472 to a $51 gift to North Adams State Teachers College, whose President wonders "whether it would ever be worthwhile to apply again...
Remarkable Resemblance. With that, Maverick gleefully dropped most of its own identity, loped off on a laconic parody called Gunshy. As played by Ben Gage, tall, broad-beamed Marshal Mort Dooley looked remarkably like Gunsmoke's tall, broad-beamed Marshal Matt Dillon. But unlike Dillon, Dooley is a businessman ("I own 37½% of the Weeping Willow Saloon") and contemplator ("This is Boot Hill-I like to come up here sometimes, to think, and maybe get a grave or two ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke...