Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bargain for 15 days, and to cry "no contract" five days after the bargaining stopped. Cap Krug contended that the clause had been abrogated by the 1946 agreement with the Government. Lewis said it had not-and he had gained a great tactical advantage when, by an election eve strike threat, he got the Government to sit down and talk contract with...
Balzac's hunger for money and social status finally led him to marry one of his admiring correspondents, Madame Eve de Hanska, a wealthy noblewoman from the Ukraine. She gave him the position he had scrambled for all his life, but he died only five months after their marriage. Balzac's 17-year courtship was the most violent chapter in the fantastically turbulent novel that was his own life. Readers will wish that Stefan Zweig had kept himself alive long enough to have finished the proper telling...
...eve of China's National Assembly, five middle-aged men waited in the reception room of a snug, red brick house in Nanking. Five nonpartisan moderates, they had come-in a political atmosphere taut as a ripe boil-to seek audience with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, at his home...
...Harvard and Yale glee clubs will present their traditional game-eve concert in Sanders Theatre Friday night at 8:15 o'clock...
...near or a complete sell-out, and acted accordingly by limiting ticket applications at the outset, then they should have announced the ticket ration as soon as it became apparent that the game was to be a sell-out. Instead, the H.A.A. chose to wait until the very eve of the game...