Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pope Pius XII (of whom Stalin once scoffingly asked: "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?") had stated the issue on the eve of elections. The choice was between "the champions and the wreckers of Christianity." He warned against Communism, which promised man material security and then made him into "a soulless wheel...
...ambassador rode through the fashionable Calle Florida with his staff in three open horse-drawn coaches, to present his credentials to retiring President Edelmiro Farrell. As he strode into the Casa Rosada a band tooted the Star-Spangled Banner. At the President's annual dinner on the eve of Argentina's Independence Day, Messersmith had a chance to meet Perón and start talking. He expected the talks to continue, frankly said they would be without publicity...
Last week, on the eve of the G.O.P. state convention, these reactionary activities were rebuked by Senator Robert A. Taft, currently the mastermind of Republican strategy...
Four years of bitter war and a year of uncertain peace had passed since the battleship King George V slipped into Annapolis, carrying Lord Halifax to his new post as war-torn London's Ambassador to Washington. Last week, on the eve of homegoing and retirement, the tall, mild statesman looked into the troublous future, saw Anglo-American friendship as "a patch of good firm ground on which we can stand and be secure." Said...
...Bavarian custom, a victory for a centuries-long tradition of Catholic, monarchical conservatism. U.S. officials had seen it coming, and tried to duck. On the eve of the election they had banned Christian Social Union leader Friedrich Schaeffer from voting or holding party membership, denounced him as a "Nazi sympathizer...