Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the omission leaves the implication that I left uniformed service on the eve of the war, I think the error requires correction...
Inflation, long out of the news, returned to the headlines. But it frightened no one. On the eve of the first anniversary of his "hold-the-line" order, Franklin Roosevelt read to his press conference a report from four of his economic high command.* Its gist...
...called. Mrs. John Curtin, who has never been outside Australia, said last week in Canberra that she was going to London (via the U.S.) with her Prime Minister husband. Then came word from Auckland that New Zealand's Prime Minister, able Scot-born Peter Fraser, was on "the eve of his departure." No word came from Pretoria, South Africa, but no such council would be complete without Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, the British Commonwealth's elder statesman...
Long Night. Snorting, shortening his range, Churchill urged Eden to stay on. Talks important to Britain impended with the arrival of U.S. Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. It would be harmful if Eden quit on the eve of these discussions...
...Academy, Artist Brangwyn is best known in the U.S. for his arch-academic murals in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (R.C.A. Building's lobby). Sir Frank once fell afoul of British womanhood when he was misreported as having criticized the British female figure. What he actually said: "An Eve-I want an Eve. Where is there an Eve symbolic of her sex?" Result: a mass demonstration of shapely women in the streets of his native village (Ditchling, Sussex...