Word: uso
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eventually, we'll all be on TV. There are 500 channels plus the Internet, and they all need warm bodies. We Americans are being drafted into the global USO, and I, for one, am fit and ready to serve. This is what I was thinking when, five years ago, I walked into my local MTV headquarters and signed up for the tryouts for the London cast of The Real World. I was rejected in the final round, after spending three months undergoing seven stages of vigorous testing that included a 10-page application, many videotaped interviews and a blind date...
...office and tell me what it was like for him as a child in 1945 to await the arrival of the dreaded American beasts, and instead meet a smiling G.I. who gave him a Hershey bar. In thanks, the businessman was donating a large sum of money to the USO. After thanking him, I gave him as a souvenir a Hershey bar I had autographed. He took it and began...
...boots and relax. That's where G.I. Bob comes in, as in Bob Hope, the first Hasbro Hollywood Hero. Hope, dressed in a pith helmet and leather jacket, will begin entertaining troops from toy-store shelves later this month. Unfortunately, he will be performing solo. Connie Stevens and other USO regulars have not yet been drafted for duty...
...Maryland real estate developer, has told friends that Willey called him a number of times in recent months seeking favors. In fact, Landow claims to have saved voice mail from Willey, a source told TIME. In one message, she asked him to buy a $1,500 table at a USO dinner (Clinton had appointed her to the USO board) and escort her. In another, she described herself as "all stressed out" and asked if he had a Florida retreat she could use. In a third, she invited him to accompany her to the Turks and Caicos Islands and inquired about...
...given favorable treatment after they "succumbed" to Clinton's advances. The two examples are Gennifer Flowers (who got a state job) and Kathleen Willey (who reportedly has said President Clinton kissed and fondled her in 1993 and who later traveled on foreign junkets and got a job on the USO board...