Word: eighteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pink, diffident freshman watched these doings. Eighteen-year-old Malcolm Dickson had no jumping experience. Fired with ambition, he gave a great leap, cleared the seventh step with so much to spare that he fell on his face...
...Eighteen men and a girl gathered on the windswept platform of Moscow's White Russian Station. The girl was Kathleen Harriman, attractive, dark-haired, 25-year-old daughter of U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman. The men were foreign correspondents. Together they boarded a four-car special train-warm, well lighted, well stocked-which they owed to Kathy. Originally their Russian hosts had planned the outing in automobiles, with each man taking his own food for three days, but they had rolled out the special when Miss Harriman asked to come along. The party played cards, ate with their official...
...Reserve men who got into the program last term through A-12 tests, and left last week, at the end of their term, to get their basic training. These men had entered the A. S. T. before their eighteenth birthdays and, having reached the age of eighteen during the term, they left on December 4. Other Specialist men had a week's furlough last week before starting their new terms...
...world will surely be in Eighteen Hundred and Forty-three...
...Salerno, deprived the Germans of a major one. Below Naples, from beaches where death and uncertainty had lately reigned, the British-American Fifth Army moved inland, taking towns, a few airdromes, hills where hell had breathed from German guns. The British Eighth Army had come up from the south. Eighteen days after their first entry into Hitler's Europe, the Allies in lower Italy had the ports, the airdromes, the space they needed to secure their entry and give the Germans an unqualified defeat. For that end, they must now prepare and fight...