Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action is in support of the policy of the national AVC, which is the only veteran's organization openly fighting the legislation. The resolution states that "old age security should exist for the entire populace and that expenditures solely for veterans' old age benefits would only harm the legitimate veterans' needs which now exist...
Right, now, the elaborate nets of the age confine the team's activities as effectively as a fishing not over a school of mackeral. What will happen when the squad breaks out into the great outdoors can only be guessed...
...main story, however, is chiefly Hammerstein's work. It is a love story, the pair involved consisting of a U. S. Navy nurse and a Frenchman who is approaching middle-age and lives in the south Pacific. I won't tax you with a synopsis of its details, but it adds up, despite a woefully slow first scene, to what is probably the first amorous relationship that has ever had any substance in the history of musicals...
After a brief, unhappy career as a wine salesman, Garrick wheedled his way on to the stage. He was an almost immediate success. At the age of 24 he revolutionized English acting with his performance of Colley Gibber's version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Where his predecessors had declaimed in stiff and grandiloquent periods, he developed an easy-flowing, natural and rant-free style. They had recited, but he acted...
After Due Consideration. In London, the War Office's British Army Journal had some advice for civilians of the atomic age: "The best defense today against the atomic bomb is not to be there when it goes...