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...voluminous literature published about the games dwelt at length on the Peróns' personal interest in sports. The opening of the games had been nicely timed to coincide with both the fifth anniversary of President Perón's election and the start of the Peronista party enrollment for the 1952 vote. Equally well timed was a little curtain-raiser...
...inaugural address, former history professor Griswold dwelt mostly on his favorite theme--that society owes to each individual the fullest amount of education he is capable of absorbing. The aim of such education is not just intellection competence but rather the preparation of people as responsible citizens...
Then Attlee dwelt sarcastically on Churchill's alternate use of scorn and entreaty to win the nine-seat Liberal bloc to the Tory side. "He has been a very ardent lover of this elderly spinster, the Liberal Party," he said, and the House tittered. Lady Megan Lloyd George, 47-year-old Liberal spinster, blushed and laughed with embarrassment. Other M.P.s, with mock gallantry, cried: "Withdraw!" But Attlee went right on. "I can never make out," he said, "whether the Right Honorable Member for Woodford [Churchill's constituency] is going to play Petruchio or Romeo. He gives...
...envoy dwelt upon the dispute which is festering between India and Pakistan over the strategically located Kashmir Valley, and added that all of Pakistan's attempts at peaceful conciliation have been rejected by India...
...complete chronicles of dynasties and even a list of the major Egyptian Deities and Sacred Animals, from Amon to Wtō. Baedeker history, usually as dry as the Sahara, sometimes managed to achieve a touch of poetry. Discussing the London Bridge area, Baedeker relates: "In one of the houses dwelt Sir John Hewittf Lord Mayor in the time of Queen Elizabeth, whose daughter, according to the romantic story, fell into the river and was rescued by Edward Osborne, his apprentice. The brave and fortunate youth afterward married the young lady and founded the family of the present Duke of Leeds...