Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians and British are said to have dropped small amounts. In recent months Mihailovich has begged over the radio for all he can get. Last fortnight London reported that 24 Axis divisions (Germans, Hungarians and Bulgarians) had been sent into the Sumadija mountains to deliver the coup de grace...
...Sarge Swenke, his trainer, refused to give up his faith in Alsab, last year's wonderhorse-even after he finished third in Florida's Flamingo and fifth in its Widener; even after he was licked twice within a week at Havre de Grace by commonplace Colchis; even after he was humbled by Valdina Orphan in the Derby Trial and by Shut Out in the great Derby itself, the race for which Swenke had pointed since the beginning of the year...
Tyrone Power applied for enlistment in the Naval Reserve, passed his physical exam. The Navy said he would probably be made a chief petty officer assigned to morale and recreation. He gets a few months' grace to finish his picturemaking...
Official Washington saw a good deal of the dark, eloquent visitor who has come to symbolize the will toward hemisphere cooperation: Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla (TIME, April 6). Washington liked what it saw-a man whose genuineness is as obvious as his grace...
...Escape, popular anti-Nazi thriller of 1939-40, was the best literary mystery in a publishing tycoon's age. Leading can didates of the guessers were Dorothy Thompson, Rebecca West, I. A. R. Wylie. Last week the real author came out of hiding, proved to be Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General Yen), who had waited to declare herself till a daughter in Hungary had safely reached the U.S. Of her pen name (Ethel Vance), Authoress Stone explained she had chosen it because "it sounds like a name you were born with...