Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm program," he said. "Give it back quickly." Of course, he has done more to raise farm prices than anyone else; just think, he says, of the milk, eggs and bread his children consume. Are his crowds packed with the young? "I'm going to lower the voting age to seven." What about all that money he's spending? He quotes from Jack: "I have a message from my father: 'I don't mind spending money, but please don't buy one more vote than is necessary...
...them." This time, the pent-up suppressions and frustrations created by ten years of orderly Gaullism not only erupted in force but swiftly widened into large-scale social revolt. The blow was doubly painful; the events irrevocably tarnished De Gaulle's authority when he was already at an age (77) that would scarcely allow his reign to stretch for many more years...
...provided for the curtailment of constitutional guarantees during a national emergency. Under the law, the Bundestag would be able to declare a "state of emergency," permitting the government to: 1) draft men over 18 who are eligible for military service into civilian defense units, 2) draft women up to age 55 into "hospital" units, 3) order persons to remain at their jobs, 4) requisition private vehicles, and 5) engage in wiretapping and interception of mail when there is a "justified" suspicion of treason...
With Ceauşescu at his side and a white ambulance trailing discreetly behind in deference to his age, De Gaulle plunged repeatedly into the crowds, delighting them with carefully rehearsed greetings in Rumanian. He talked to housewives, questioned workers in greasy overalls about wages and working conditions, listened gravely to serenades by gypsy bands...
...COLLEGES. These stag institutions preserve earlier collegiate styles, like the Jazz Age pride in holding hard liquor one can still find at the University of Virginia, the teen-age muscularity of Princeton or Notre Dame, or the John Wayne militarism of Texas...