Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lard. Big Mike had been in bad odor ever since his election last November; people just wouldn't take the trouble to understand him. He had gotten elected, for instance, by running on the Democratic ticket as a former University of Michigan football player, and a patriot who had served 6½ years in the Marine Corps. Then it developed that he had never been to Michigan, had been a marine only 23 months (before Pearl Harbor), and had been parted from the service after three courts-martial...
...unhappier than Artie himself. "This place is awful," he moaned. "The noise bounces back from the walls and ceiling until I can't hear what's going on. The musicians get nervous and play louder than ever, and that makes things even worse. We spend weeks rehearsing every little nuance and all we produce is noise...
Watching the first night football game ever played in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (before 40,000 spectators), Sports Editor Vernon ("Curley") Grieve of Hearst's Examiner got so excited last week that he thought he heard voices. Wrote Grieve: "When Mayor Elmer G. Robinson turned on the floodlights ... a huge gasp escaped from the throng and it rolled upward like escaped steam from a huge boiler. It was then-unanimously-that the crowd mumbled: 'This is grand. This is what we need and want...
After 15 months, what started as a community project had grown into one of the most comprehensive exhibits of religious art ever gathered together in northern Europe. By last week, 300 art historians and archeologists had swarmed into town to buzz among the assembled treasures, argue learnedly over dates and artists. The Vatican sent photographers to take pictures. The Belgian periodical Sa-uoir et Beaute brought out a special number singing the glories of ancient Tournai...
Where it is right, establish it; where it is in want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake of Him who died and rose again, and ever liveth to make intercession for us, Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord...