Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the conductor raised his baton, the young men moved on an assortment of weapons and started to flail away. The effect was like an explosion in a boiler factory. The occasion: an all-percussion concert at New York's Manhattan School of Music, under the direction of Veteran Percussionist Paul Price...
Shepard spoke first about his catcher, John Davis--the team captain and a consistent, wholly dependable veteran. Here is one position, at least, where the varsity can expect to be "solid." But else-where, the picture is far more uncertain...
...Three ranking officers were demoted and a 28-year veteran bounced day before he would have been pensioned, because headquarters men smashed a numbers ring under their noses in Harlem...
...many crops, the U.S. is headed for even bigger surpluses. The 1959 wheat harvest was forecast last week at 1.2 billion bu. This will add 200 million bu. to the record 1.3 billion bu. wheat carryover expected this July1. With productivity shooting up like the kudzu vine, even veteran farm lobbyists are beginning to wonder if any kind of a subsidized farm program can be anything but a failure and scandal...
...novel is centered upon London, a city struggling to forget the Pusan road, "the Commonwealth youngsters skewered on the Dieppe beaches," and Kenya's savage snipers. As the story unfolds-it is seen through the plain, distressed eyes of Captain Alan Curtis, veteran of Korea, Kenya, Cyprus-TV Tycoon Lord Arthur Illius announces plans for a Festival of London. A prize, gravely named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should...