Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centered on the Middle East, where some nations have trafficked with the Communists and others have flirted with the idea of doing...
...many who joined the National Guard back in 1948, may I say it was a way to beat the draft without completely disrupting our plans for the future-and the Guard used this idea as propaganda. The fact that the Korean war caught us does not alter the original reasons why we joined the Guard. So Charlie Wilson is right-but why get all worked up? Nobody likes conscription in peacetime...
...fellows over at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service were rubbing their hands in anticipation one day when somebody got a bright idea: here it was time for millions of Americans to begin thinking about their income-tax reports, and soon grumbling citizens would be chewing up forms, muttering oaths and worse as they sent out their tax checks. Why not, asked an IRS man, "add a light touch to the annual tax chore" by turning out a spine-tingling, patriotic Official Tax Song-just like a cigarette commercial...
...sooner was the idea uttered than it raced like a hungry cat down Tin Pan Alley, stopped at the door of a prodigious composer named Irving Caesar, creator of such pop tunes as Tea for Two and Is It True What They Say About Dixie? Composer Caesar is no stranger to tax songs. In 1946 he turned out a children's tune called Tommy Tax ("Who pays our smiling Postman/ For toting heavy sacks? Who-oo You-oo/ And little Tommy Tax"), and was eager to write another. In a flash Tunesmith Caesar shipped off to IRS a high...
...Scientists have no idea, are baffled by the disappearance of the huge schools that periodically visited the New England coast. Some think that environmental changes have affected their ability to reproduce there...