Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their fifth birthday the Chinese Communists were busily consolidating and expanding. To start the week, the first People's Congress voted unanimously to re-elect Mao Chairman of the People's Republic and ratified Red China's first constitution, thus ending the sham of coalition government and concentrating still more power in the hands of Mao and his coterie...
...total of 171 is the largest in the band's 35-year history, and includes 45 freshmen, selected after recent tryouts. The organizations will celebrate its 35th anniversary on the Columbia weekend with extensive birthday ceremonies...
This book takes General Washington from his triumphal return to planter's life at Mount Vernon in 1783 to his 61st birthday and the end of his first term as President in early 1793. Long established as first in war biography, Historian Freeman marshals his facts as massively and meticulously as ever in his first study of the mature Washington in peacetime. Washington shines clearly in the hearts of his countrymen as he moves north through a veritable tunnel of rustic triumphal arches to take his first presidential oath at New York City's Federal Hall. By this...
London's Daily Express predicted that the highlight of Princess Margaret's 24th-birthday party, an intimate royal affair at Balmoral Castle, would be an announcement of her engagement to the Honorable Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 27, heir to a barony and a multimillion-dollar chemical fortune. With gossipists all agog, the Express's guess proved a total fizzle. Arriving at Balmoral, young...
...being followed!" A news blackout followed. Across the moat of privacy, reporters had Slim pickings: The only tidings that drifted out from the inner sanctum: a picnic had been called off because of rain-and U.S. Crooner Eddie Fisher had sent the princess a special recording of Happy Birthday...