Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyday lunch hour. "Will you keep your own name or take your husband's?" an official asks the bride, reminding her that if she takes her husband's, she must get a new internal passport within ten days. After that, the couple get a certificate saying that Citizen A and Citizeness B have "contracted marriage," and the ceremony is over. "I congratulate you," says the official, "upon your legal marriage...
...Cooper picks his first hero (Michael Callan) in a skirmish, and at the battle of Ojos Azules, a remarkably clear and exciting action sequence, he finds four more (Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Dick York). The colonel then puts Cooper and his heroes in charge of a U.S. citizen (Rita Hayworth) accused of giving aid and comfort (of a suggestively unspecified nature) to the enemy, and orders them north to Cordura, three days' ride across a waterless waste. On the way Cooper tells the men that they will be nominated for the Medal of Honor, and asks them...
...Cambridge Civic Association, a citizen's organization founded 14 years ago to foster the reform movement which had taken over the city several years before...
...membership includes many types of people: solid citizen businessman, who does not want his financial interests subverted by politicians who might try to squeeze more taxes for their own profit; the young, liberal Democrat, favoring a clean city government, free of the bad qualities of bossism; and natural minorities like Jews and Negroes who see the CCA as a road by which they can express and protect their interests...
Speaking to a crowd of 1000 in the Amherst College gym, MacLeish described Dickinson as "the town's greatest citizen" and her poems as "the touchstones of all touchstones...