Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high spots of that war is the burning of Washington. U.S. texts cry "vandalism," tell how British troops "deliberately set fire to the White House, the Capitol and other Government buildings." But they either ignore, or footnote, a fact which is always emphasized in Canadian versions of the same event: the "vandalism" was really "revenge." U.S. troops a year earlier had just as wantonly burned York (now Toronto), capital of what was then Upper Canada...
...fighting men last week won the biggest Allied sports event of World War II. Before 15,000 rain-soaked, freezing fans filling St. Eugene Stadium, Algiers, Americans took 13 out of 16 professional championships in the North African Thea ter of Operations boxing tournament...
...Manhattan's Radio City last week there was an almost unprecedented musical event−a newly composed U.S. symphony failed to bore its audience. The fact that its composer was also a professional endocrinologist, the author of a book on global strategy, the writer of a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn, and an honorary member...
...circus parade and a Czechoslovakian weenie-roast. It was vulgar, raucous, unabashedly sentimental, as enjoyable as a baseball game or a day at Coney Island. Critics were unable to down the suspicion that Composer Antheil had paid careful attention to the music and success of Dmitri Shostakovich. In any event, the work proved what some of his friends have long suspected: that the talent Antheil has hid under a bushel of estheticism is one of the most robust and various in modern music...
...biggest collective event of the leave was incurred by the 30 of our boys who partook of matrimony last week and brought back their subsequent weekend entertainment with them. For myself, after four sleepless nights on a furlough ticket, mid bawling offspring, and with special attention to one dear three-year-old, name of Ralphy, who rode backwards in the seat ahead, chin hung over the back, drippin' orange juice, and with the most unexplainable silly grin on his face for a solid 600 miles, I will be content to go on running my chances at the Touraine with...