Word: reached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veterans at the age of 65, whether they needed it or not, and a minimum of $42 a month for veterans' widows. The cost for the first year would run to about $62 million, would rise to $6 billion within a decade, and eventually reach an astronomical total of $200 billion, four times as much as the U.S. has paid out from the Revolution to the present...
...bulk of World War II veterans will not reach retirement age until around 1990, and to many of them Demagogue Rankin's bill simply meant filling up the gravy boat again for World War I servicemen. Such veterans' groups as the V.F.W. and American Veterans Committee howled in dismay. Even the American Legion leadership, which has sometimes mistaken the public treasury for its own, remained guardedly silent...
...little later three detectives walked, with drawn guns, into a jeweler's cage. One of them said: "Reach!" Dennis' hands came slowly up. He said: "Well, you fellows have...
Willie fought cautiously for three rounds, peppering Champion Sandy Saddler with rapierlike left jabs and occasionally plastering him with solid rights. The champion, a willowy 22-year-old Negro from Manhattan, had a longer reach and harder punch, but he had a hard time hitting shifty Willie. The Hartfordites roared with partisan joy as Willie built up a lead on points. Then the fight became a slugging match as the 126-pounders threw everything they had. Saddler had Pep reeling drunkenly in the tenth round; another good punch would have been the end of Willie. But wily Willie, a shrewd...
According to Peter E. Pratt, director of Alumni Records, Adams was the only Harvard graduate to reach the age of 100. He was born July...