Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team, including about 25 players, two coaches, two managers, and a trainer, will leave Cambridge April 3, and meet Ft. Loe the next day. A game with the University of Virginia is scheduled April 5, and after two days of practice under southern sun, the nine faces the Quantico Marine team...
Work, Work, Work. The son of a day laborer in a Virginia tobacco factory, Andrews went to work sweeping out a grocery for 25? a day when he was five years old, has been working for 50 years since then. On an average day he rises at 6 a.m., works two hours before breakfast, works at the office until 6:30 p.m., works at home until 10:30. Says he: "I have never been able to understand people who work a 40-hour week. I grew up another...
...reference to Corporal Edward Dickenson, the Virginia mountain boy who, as a war prisoner in Korea, defected to Communism, but then changed his mind and chose freedom...
...Recorded?" Through the glass doors came West Virginia's Democratic Senator Harley Kilgore, who had been resting on a couch in his office all afternoon. In the second day of an influenza attack, Kilgore had been ordered by his doctor to go home, but he had insisted on staying around to vote. Sick, drowsy with medicine, Kilgore stared groggily at Nixon. Nixon stared back, waiting for some sign that Kilgore wanted to be recognized. Kilgore, who had been having dental trouble and was being fitted for a new plate, ran his tongue rhythmically over his gums. He said nothing...
...Falls Church, and began to build a $42,500 home there. Two years later, he was dismayed to find that Gravedigger Marlowe had bought 63 acres to the east and south of his land, and was planning to extend National Memorial Park to the Curtin fenceline. Citing an old Virginia law that prohibits cemeteries closer than 750 ft. to residences, Curtin argued the matter in court. The court ruled that the law did not apply to existing cemeteries, and National Park began to creep toward Curtin's dooryard. The cemetery, a mortician's dream, features "music from...