Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news permitting, planned to fly to Stockholm to be with his family. Overshadowing the Cairo bureau's festivities was the fighting in the Holy Land. Bureau Chief Don Burke's family had a Christmas tree and all the trimmings and hoped he would be there to enjoy it, but chances were that he would be covering the news in Palestine on Christmas...
...Rarely that It Pleases." "It is essential," Sir Stafford Cripps told the House sternly, "that he [Philip] should have an adequate income . . .not only to provide for his personal staff, charities, and matters of that kind . . . but also that he may enjoy a proper degree of independence. The figure of ?10,000 . . . is customary for the younger.son of a king." Sir Stafford doubted that Britons would want to economize on royalty. One might as well, he concluded, suggest dispensing with the royal horses because "they Cost ?15,000 or whatever it is . . . but I venture to think if someone were...
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even can enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind...
...general whimsicality of the picture is weary but Miss Dietrich does what she can with the laborious charade. She helps embarrassed Ray Milland, a fugitive Englishman, across several reels of "comedy drama" in wartime Germany, and conveys the idea that gypsies enjoy wild free lives and wild free loves...
...explaining career opportunities in the Foreign Service, I presented a number of considerations which interested students should weight pro and con in deciding whether they are fitted for, and would enjoy, a life in the Foreign Service. They must consider whether by native intelligence, intellectual equipment, character, and personality qualifications they stand a good chance in the keenly competitive, nation-wide examinations... They should not entertain fanciful illusions about a life generally characterized by gaiety, excitement, and intrigue. These elements may develop in the life of a Foreign Service officer, but they are only occasional highlights in a career...