Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mountain State, we think it is time to step in and defend our honor. The Kentucky julep didn't even become popular until around 1881 . . . In the early 1830s, a tavern, which later became the Old White and still later the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., was famous for its mint juleps . . . But there are indications, turned up by our office, that the julep was invented right in this section early in 1800 by slaves who used a mountain brew called fulcher* whisky and garnished their master's juleps with the mint that grew around...
Charleston, W. Va...
...Ashland, Va...
Through the week the tedious negotiations in Korea (see above) were uppermost in the President's mind. Just before he left Washington for a weekend with 120 top-ranking officers and defense officials at the big Marine base at Quantico, Va., the President had another conference on Korea. The meeting delayed the departure from the White House, and although the motorcade roared down to Quantico at 70 m.p.h., the President was late, and the official welcoming party was confused and missed his arrival. When he finally caught up with the President, Quantico Commandant Lieut. General Clifton B. Gates...
...transmitting tower put up on his Leesburg, Va. farm just behind the chicken coop, this week returned to the radio & television faithful the freckled face and barefoot voice of Arthur Godfrey, in the pink, but still on crutches after his celebrated Boston hip operation...