Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gifts she is not herself eligible to receive - Mother's Day, bridal, baby, wedding and anniversary presents - Miss Dorothy Babb, an instructor at North Texas State College, felt that there should be a National Old Maids' Day. Many spinsters, she pointed out, don't even get birthday gifts, so eager are they to avoid the subject...
...Yalta in 1945, after Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed on San Francisco and April for the opening U.N. conference, there still remained an argument over the exact day. From the back of the room, Sir Gladwyn called: "Why not start April 25-that's my birthday." Amid laughter, the 25th...
Salvos of artillery saluted her 50th birthday throughout the empire, but Britain's Queen Elizabeth saw in her second half-century quietly. At tea she sliced a small cake with pink and white icing, but no candles. In the evening a few close friends were invited to Sandringham to help the King toast her in champagne...
Last week, on its 175th birthday, the Medical Service of the U.S. Army was, in the words of Surgeon General Raymond W. Bliss, "in the most difficult place it has ever been in-Korea." Over the years, the Medical Service had grown mightily from a pipsqueak, penny-pinched outfit (five doctors for 20,000 men in 1775) into a veritable army of healers: 10,200 officers (doctors, dentists and nurses), some 25,000 enlisted Medical Corpsmen. But the nature of war and the hapless plight of the wounded, the agony of torn flesh and the superhuman burdens on the "medics...
...them to keep them from quitting; for 13 days & nights he stayed atop the dike directing their work. Floods more terrible than the Yangtze were threatening China. The Japanese conquest forced Chiang's armies back into the interior. On the morning of Mayor Wu's 35th birthday, Oct. 25, 1938, Hankow, then Chiang's center of resistance, fell to the Japanese...