Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Ernest Bevin spoke with fervor and measured hope: "We have today embarked on a great adventure ... a most famous historical undertaking . . . This new [North Atlantic] pact brings us under a wider roof of security ... It is certainly one of the greatest steps toward world peace ... a new era of cooperation and understanding...
Besides these playoffs, Barclay won't have much work to do with the team. Golf is famous for its remote-control system of coaching, since the only way to improve is to practice by yourself. By the time a man is good enough to make the team, he presumably knows enough to keep his eye on the ball and not use a driver in a sandtrap...
...from insomnia. There was a time when he spent the long, painful hours of darkness dreaming up new paintings, but not any more. Masson has called a halt to the shadowy flood of gutted women, warring insects, angry furniture, neon seas, chalk idols and galloping labyrinths that made him famous, and moved out into the sunshine to paint landscapes...
...longer, the Los Angeles Conservatory was serving up a carefully balanced musical diet. It also had a spruce new home, a roster of first-class names on its faculty and an accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Music on the office wall. L.A. was not yet as famous as Manhattan's Juilliard, Philadelphia's Curtis or Rochester's Eastman, but it had climbed up into their company as the first independent and accredited four-year music school on the West Coast...
V.V.O. In Tokyo, agents of the Army's Criminal Investigation Division cracked down on Japanese bootleggers, confiscated dozens of bottles of "American whisky," including one labeled "Famous since...