Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victoria Kelly was learning to look her five-year-old best for photographers, with the expert coaching of her mother, Lens Veteran Brenda Frazier Kelly, 29, glamor queen of cafe society a decade...
...Veterans Administration read the letter and got the shock of its life. For the past three years, a disabled World War II veteran wrote, he had been getting $100 a month for on-the-job training as a butcher, and $12 to $15 a month in disability payments. "Now," he said, "I feel like the Government has done enough for me, especially with so many fellows coming back from Korea all shot up. There are enough of us sucking the country dry, and it's time . . . we started giving." Enclosed were two Government checks, totaling $126.40, which...
...four daring attempts to escape from his Moorish captors, he spent ten months chained in a cell. When the ransom money finally came, he returned to a Spain that had all but forgotten the heroes of Lepanto, and that could not spare him a pension. The 36-year-old veteran settled down to manufacture a blizzard of uninspired poems, unsuccessful plays and a pastoral novel, while his illegitimate daughter, his wife, his mother and his two sisters, all of whom he supported, looked hopefully over his shoulder...
...point now where further attempts to finish up all course work will prove a hollow mockery. The erudite student finds that his time will be best spent in evolving a system for writing exams and term papers. Unfortunately, the faculty has been wising up recently and such veteran maneuvers as the missing blue book no longer work. In its place we recommend the following five new fresh approaches to the problem of feigning knowledge: 1) The use of the colon; 2) the graduating senior ploy; 3) The Chinese ploy; 4) The Radcliffe ploy; 5) The room-mate export or phony...
Knaus is married and is a veteran of two and a half years of service with the Marines in the South Pacific...