Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know, Conspirator deals with the story of a 17-year-old girl who marries a major on active duty with His Majesty's Brigade of Guards. Despite the major's high position in the most sacrosanct military unit in the Empire, he is secretly in the Communist Party and giving military information to the Soviet. When his young wife learns of his treason she becomes a thorn in the side of the intelligence operation of the Russians in London, and the major is instructed to liquidate her lest more trouble follow...
...United States ... [He would probably be] more annoyed by [it] than by Wall Street ... It will take a long series of five-year plans before the Soviet woman can buy a dress, a hat or a pair of shoes for anything near the price a New York working girl paid for her Easter outfit...
...head of the statue out of the ashcan. Only its nose had been dented. She pressed her lips affectionately against it. Then she ran shrilling into the house: "Mom, the statue cried. I kissed it and it cried." Viola Martin knew her daughter to be a perfectly normal girl, neither withdrawn nor possessed, but sufficiently imaginative to be pecking out on a typewriter a "book" she called "The Haunted House." Mrs. Martin decided to say nothing. "Nobody would have believed...
Then Ann Neville, a seven-year old girl, skimmed across the pool three times in a fine medley exhibition. Soon thereafter, her brother, five-year old Georgia, stole the diving show from a Miss Dean, a brown-skinned plunger of NYU and Bermuda Aquacade fame...
...grants will bring an English girl from Cambridge University to study in the United States for the first time. Nine states, the District of Columbia, Brazil, the British Isles, Canada, China, Puerto Rico, and Turkey are represented by the fellowship winners, who have studied in 30 universities here and abroad...