Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Armed Services Committee drafted a selective service bill which, in the next two years, would build up a force close to a quarter of a million more than Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal had asked for. The draftable age group: 19 to 25. They would be used as 1) replacements, 2) to build the services up to a total of 1,944,000 men. They would be drafted for two years...
...week age, in their only unofficial outing, the freshman squad made hash of a game JV squad by a 5 to 0 count. The 1946 Andover captain, Rick Hutner, is the offensive star of this year's aggregation, while an Exonian, Clark Cowen, brother of football Bob Cowen, is a standout on defense...
...alarmed about our fate. Let me say, first of all, that we are all safe and sound and that we, after all, are far from despair. It is quite true that we have lost much in the last three weeks. If anybody were to have told me, a month age, what we were going to lose, I should certainly have despaired. But strangely enough, I do not despair today, even if we have just taken leave of our Jan Masaryk...
...local laundry not long age had to deal with a married student who left in his pocket a love letter, not to his wife. He called sometime later, frantically begging the proprietor to find the billet doux before the clothes were delivered. Searching every suit in the shop, they found...
...When she was born in Baltimore 33 years ago, her mother was 13, her father 15, and they didn't bother to get married until Billie was three. She began to work at six, scrubbing steps before school and minding babies after, was only 14 ("big for my age, had big breasts, big bones") when she got her first singing job in a Harlem joint at $2 a night. Her first record (Tapping the Barrel) was made with a green young band leader named Benny Goodman, and she was soon getting feature billing...