Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the expressions of Christmastide cheer received by many men between the ages of eighteen-and-one-half and twenty-six were induction notices from local draft boards across the nation. The event was marked with the haphazardness typical of the present draft setup...
...resurrected last Saturday by Representative Carl Vinson, head of the House Armed Services Committee. As a step toward launching a Universal Military Training system, he proposed a plan which would enable sixty thousand men in the seventeen-to-nineteen age bracket to volunteer for six months of training and eighteen months on active reserve. At least sixty thousand students could achieve some measure of certainty under this program, and it could be expanded into a full UMST program at whatever pace the Army requirements allowed...
...supporters of both Senator Taft and General Eisenhower regarded a resolution adopted yesterday by party chairmen of eighteen Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states as a boost for their respective candidates. The resolution...favored "a candidate whose hands are not tied and who has no strings attached, who will wage war without wavering against the gigantic pyramid of unholy power which has been erected on the banks of the Potomac." --from The New York Times January...
...very competent group of performers were outstanding. Paul DesMarais played Copland's difficult Variations for Piano with finesse and precision. The work consists of a theme, eighteen separate but closely related variations, and a coda, and seems to be an intellectual exercise as much as an expression of emotion. Possibly the best work on the program, it abounds in sudden shifts of tempo, tonalities, and dynamics...
...said: "I have traveled all over the world and never found a girl like you-I've got a set of false teeth-and I want to have a son as soon as possible-will you share the life of a modest writer? . . . Will you be my wife?" Eighteen months later, in February 1944, Tanya Matthews, her husband, and their infant son flew out of the U.S.S.R. toward England and the freedom of the West...