Word: tweens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jayne's, Mae also killed a scene in which Mr. Universe had husked to her, twice nightly, the vintage tune Everything I Have Is Yours. Mae's beefcake troupe rolled on to Washington, D.C., and there the backstage tensions erupted last week at a 'tween-shows press conference. Scarcely had the interview begun when Biceps Boy (212 Ibs.) Chuck Krauser, Mr. California, took exception to Mickey's remarks and belabored Mr. Universe's face, mousing his left eye and dazing him. Mr. Universe, blue suede shoes splattered with his own blood, hung...
...conflict in Miss Julie is as much be tween classes as sexes. At a Midsummer Eve revel, arrogant, dissatisfied Miss Julie, the neurotic child of parents who hated each other, becomes infatuated with her father's valet and tempts him into an affair. Respectful enough beforehand, he turns sneeringly overbearing. But, however revolted, Miss Julie is also desperate. She steals her father's money to try to run away with her lover, in the end seizes her lover's razor to do away with herself...
...program, designed to cut surpluses (and later upped the Administration's soil-bank request for $1.17 billion by $175 million). If Benson could persuade one of the G.O.P. three to switch, this year's farm bill could be sent to the Senate floor without the contradiction be tween high props and soil bank...
...agents, his telephone tapped while he was heading the American desk at the Foreign Office, Maclean was allegedly driven to desperation, while the hell-raising Burgess was depicted as a man racked with "the greatest anxiety . . . caused by the fact that at first no modus vivendi was reached be tween the East and West, and later on no attempts were made to reach...
...Weiss, on account of a family grudge. Needing a Long, however unpalatable, Huey's machine put Earl on the ticket for lieutenant governor. In 1939 Earl won promotion when Governor Leche resigned shortly before the discovery of a state mail-fraud scandal. There followed a raucous conflict be tween the Long forces and a group of reformers, out of which Earl Long emerged once more, in 1948, for the second time governor of Louisiana...