Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think up a reason to be deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with six months of active duty and 7½ years of weekly drill and summer camp in the reserves or National Guard...
...Last summer Architect Mendez suddenly became dissatisfied with the facade. In came trucks, drills and cranes, and down came the whole row of archways. Mendez also objected to the four huge lamps in the sanctuary, but when new ones were bought he objected to them too. Last week a new set of lamps was being made, work was still under way on the facade, and there was still only one lonely candidate for burial there, the Caudillo himself...
Castro went to Mexico to recruit men and money. One summer evening in 1956, he stole across the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. Castro spent the next day in McAllen's Casa de Palmas Hotel with the richest Batista-hater of all: ex-President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President...
...Pepsi-Cola company faced a similar strike last summer. Drivers stayed away from the Brighton plant for over one month...
MeBAC argues that the CDF is the only local organization equipped to carry on a theatrical season of high artistic quality. But the fact is that the CDF has not produced a play since the summer of 1956, when it staged three very fine productions in Sanders Theatre. Mean-while Group 20 has been running for the past six summers with equally high marks from the critics...