Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately Communist cries of "gangster diplomacy" rang out. They were answered promptly by bull-tongued Admiral William F. Halsey, who snorted: "It's nobody's damn business where we go. We will go anywhere we please." Of course blustering "Bull" Halsey, whose diplomatic age is about seven and a half, was a bad boy to say it. But many an inhibited career diplomat and citizen were glad that...
...males in the 19-29 age group would be taken. The revised draft law specifically exempted fathers, essential agricultural workers, veterans who had served overseas or at least six months in the continental U.S. Selective Service headquarters ordered further deferments for medical, dentistry and veterinary students, certain teachers and researchers in physical sciences and engineering. Last week exemptions were also ordered for college and university professors, home construction workers, essential production and transportation workers...
...begin as the privilege of a governing race, will gradually be extended until it is enjoyed by all; and pax, the product of the other two, the belief in the mission of imperial government, based evenly upon the foundations of justice and national authority, to bring in the golden age when war shall cease from the earth...
...usual, the first order of business was finding the youngest and the oldest. Youngest: Orlando LeValley, 97, of Caro, Mich. Oldest: William Henry Osborn, 103, of Joplin, Mo. But National Secretary Cora Gillis wasn't sure: "Sometimes they change their age from year to year. Some years they want to be the oldest, some years the youngest...
...sale of all her personal property realized only 5,000 rubles. She was ordered to repay the remaining 328,000 at the rate of 25% of her monthly salary of 225 rubles. Laughed Crocodile: "There. You have your orders. You are directed to live to the age of 511 years...