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Those lovable grannies!


Those lovable grannies! Who? Read the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times, which ran two gushing gush  
v. gushed, gush·ing, gush·es

v.intr.
1. To flow forth suddenly in great volume: water gushing from a hydrant.

2.
 stories on 18 older women who were arrested for blocking the door of the military recruitment Military recruitment is the act of requesting people, usually male, to join a military voluntarily. Involuntary military recruitment is conscription. Recruitment is necessary to maintain an effective standing army in countries that have abolished conscription or which operate a  center in Times Square last fall. They're sprightly spright·ly  
adj. spright·li·er, spright·li·est
Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk.

adv.
In a lively, animated manner.



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 and feisty--"Listen to your granny, she knows best," cried one when the charges were dismissed. Then, way, way down, amidst the knitting and the hair pins of the second story, we read that "some of [them] dated their political activism to the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg." Would the Times have underplayed it if "some" grannies "dated their political activism" to the German-American Bund? Remember to ask yourself the next time Stalin's Old Gals get a big wet one from the paper of record.
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Title Annotation:three old women are arrested for blocking the door
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Date:May 22, 2006
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