Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 3,636 secondary school seniors had filed applications by Monday, an increase of 125 from the comparable date during last January. However, Henry doubted that this increase represented any "significant" jump...
Many of these are unconscious--for example, the boy who wrote of Moby Dick that "Ahab met his death at the hands of the whale," On orals especially, unwariness can be deadly. On an American History oral, someone gave the date for the transcontinental railroad as 1840. "Why did the Forty-Niners go around the Horn?" he was asked...
...said Bayo, "for intelligent people. You cannot go in there and face 21,000 well-equipped troops in open battle. You are going to be there like mosquitoes. Your attack on Moncada was & big mistake." Castro, who had already named his movement "26th of July'' for the date of the Moncada attack, was hurt. But he force-marched his rebels through the mountains 15 hours a day, learned mapmaking, bomb making and marksmanship. On Nov. 26, 1956, Castro and 81 revolutionaries set to sea from Tuxpam on the Gulf of Mexico aboard their Prío-bought...
...from now. "The parties must have time to reorganize," he argued. "If we held elections tomorrow, we would win. People tire quickly. In 18 months, the people may be very tired of us." Castro led a revolution against personal government and for restoring a rule of law; since the date of his victory, he has built a government based largely on his personality, while his men have violated his country's basic law. If he can summon maturity and seriousness, the bloody events of last week may yet turn out to be what Puerto Rico...
...poet's broken-field running in the sexual arena would baffle a convention of psychiatrists. Author Winwar gallantly charts the whole painful performance, beginning with Edgar's first sonnets smuggled by his sister into an exclusive young ladies' seminary (although poetry was then acceptable currency in "date-patterns," his frenzies must have startled the girls out of their wits). There followed an ocean of vows and verses to members of what he learned bitterly to call "the pestilential society of literary women...