Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began with publication of Wallace's now famous letter to the President, in which he not only deplored the Administration's foreign policy, but also criticized the U.S. plan for setting up international control of atomic power...
...sang Pancho Villa's ragged army in one of the most famous of all Latin American soldier songs. U.S. soldiers, better heeled than the cockroach, gave ear, took up the marijuana habit. Later they smoked the reefers in Panama, and when World War II took them to bases in Ecuador, the hop habit they brought was the answer to a medicine man's prayers...
...whose mother was arrested when she was over 80 because she "forgot where she was and stepped on the gas" should possess both unusual mental acuity and a lasting love for Law. "I've always found plenty to keep me busy," says Professor Roscoe Pound, who, like many other famous men, has the ability to master more than one field of knowledge...
...Paul Governali, erstwhile Columbia great and current Boston Yank highlight, put the Crimson defenders on their mettle for the second successive day as he demonstrated his famous passing technique in limitation (or surpassing) of Carl Leibert, Princeton flinger who passed the Brown backs silly in last Saturday's one sided encounter in New Jersey...
...hand at producing Shakespeare, has still not mastered the job. She has attempted to tie loose historical ends together with two speeches by a chorus-like character who informs the audience by a homespun Elizabethan intonation of what is happening. And she has aggravated the injury of the famous pre-curtain eulogy to Queen Elizabeth by humorously poor staging...