Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech as lofty as Churchill's was plain, Eden sought to exorcise some of the forces bedeviling Allied diplomacy. International suspicion, said he, "has unhappily always played its part in Anglo-Russian relations, and it has a habit of accumulating suspicions on their side which produce countersuspicions on ours and, before we know where we are, a mountain of suspicion is the result...
Both these toys lay neglected as Master John Boettiger, 5, pursued his recurring ambition to become a White House guard. But not for long. Interests ebb & flow fast at five. Soon, Johnny was back at his habit of riding the Irish Mail or the Express wagon back & forth on the long cement walkway that stretches just south of the sprawling White House, flashing briefly at one end into the vision of his grandfather, the President...
Bickering between the army and civil officialdom was widespread. Inspired press campaigns instructed soldiers not to turn grumbling into a habit, warned them that the sorely tried home front will not stand...
Bedtime Story. The White House correspondents, though not unused to being the President's whipping boys, scribbled angrily on their note pads. The President continued his lecture. There used to be bedtime stories, he said, about children who saw things under their beds. That was a very bad habit. When he was vacationing in the South he could look down on the whole Montgomery Ward incident (he raised his hands to show from what a height he had observed it), and that was just what was happening. A lot of people in this country were seeing things under their...
...Habit." Franklin Roosevelt did a little spade work on his own. While White House reporters stared incredulously, Montana's bitterly anti-Roosevelt Senator Burton K. Wheeler walked in for his first White House visit since the spring of 1940. After a 45-minute chat, Burt Wheeler emerged, told newsmen that he and the President had discussed the coming 100th anniversary celebration of Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph.* Burt Wheeler added: "I'm against a fourth term, or a third term, for any President." But diplomatic relations had at least been reestablished...