Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...join the program. This brought in large numbers of men in their twenties who preferred the RFA program to two years from Selective Service (and two years in the Ready Reserve). In addition, the Army reduced the Ready Reserve time to encourage more teen-age enlistments. At present, the Ready Reserve obligations for men 17-18 1/2 is three years, and for men 18 1/2-26, five-and-a-half. Pay is now $78 a month while on active duty...
...first, when the number of RFA's was small, and they were only 17-18 1/2, they were accepted as sort of a "test group," having no effect on the actual running of the post. But as the RF's have increased both in numbers and in age, their presence has had a much more decided effect, especially on draftees serving two years--usually two boring years if they are stationed in the States...
...other causes. For one, the party is losing the flourishing white-collar voters who should be its anchor; 52% voted Republican in 1954, 38% in 1958. And it is losing its appeal to youth and becoming the party of the older voter. In November Republicans got 49% of the age-50-and-over vote, 37% of the age-49-and-under...
...gloves and keep their cigarette-lighter wicks trimmed as acts of thoughtfulness to their ladies. "We must defend Paris," he said, "against the hatless." With full dress there could be no compromise: a dinner jacket was so informal it was a "masterpiece of vulgarity and ugliness." The live-modern age could not be forgiven because it had "killed dilettantism." Tastefully, Le Figaro said of his death: "Andre de Fouquières leaves Parisian life at the dawn of the epoch of severity. Animator of so many fetes and rejoicings of other times, he disappears as if by discretion...
...same as a jug. He enriched Thomas White, the "illiterate, vulgar although well-meaning" editor of the Messenger, but White was forced to record: "Poe has flew the track." Another time he wrote Poe, fearing "that you would again sip the juice," adding the wisdom of a spacious age: "No man is safe who drinks before breakfast." As if drink were not bad enough, Poe almost certainly was a drug addict; more than one of his fictional characters confessed to being "a bonden slave to the trammels of opium...