Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...erroneously reported that Los Angeles youth had invented a fascinating custom-taking off its shoes at dances. ... I wish to claim the honor for the people to whom I think it rightfully belongs-Minneapolis' own West High School. I started at West in the fall of 1943, and during my three years at West I danced shoeless at almost every dance. As did many others...
...isolationism, the new European brand does not spring from a sense of security, but from an overwhelming knowledge of insecurity. Britain's R. H. S. Grossman, a leader of the dissident Laborites, put it thus: "Europe has become a relatively unimportant place . . . where the atom bombs meant to fall on America will fall short on Britain. . . . This country is now indefensible in a war between Russia and America. If we join Russia against America we shall be starved out in three weeks. If we join the Americans against Russia, we are a little island 3,000 miles from...
Worried. El Khoury is a natural worrier. In the fall of 1944 he had plenty of troubles-his wife's illness, his scapegrace son's escapades, his efforts to get rid of the French (who had jailed him for opposing them...
Although almost all managers advise early reservations, most local hostelries assured at least 15 or 20 places for the May 10 weekend. Double rooms only are available in most cases, but a very few single accommodations may fall vacant just before the dance...
...inclined to pass over the Classics and their offerings both to concentrators and to those who are merely seeking a good extra course as an archaic institution whose last purpose in life was canceled when the Faculty abolished the ancient language requirement for the A. B. degree last fall...