Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarter of a million automobiles jammed the streets, night and morning, lurching, braying and banging bumpers. Armies of men & women were late for work and late for supper. Retail business fell off, tempers were strained...
...diversion of the expected guests, an open-air opera house had been built near the Great Pyramid; corps de ballet and singers by the dozen were imported, and the great Verdi commissioned to write an opera. (He responded with Aïda, but alas, two years too late...
...Usti-nad-labem, Czechoslovakia, tactful city fathers changed the name of General Eisenhower Embankment to Premier Antonin Zapotocky Embankment, and the name of Marshal Tito Street to Jan Sverma Street (after a late national Communist hero...
...make him the favorite, but for one shining moment it looked as though he might come through. After lagging for half a mile behind horses that two years ago would only have been warmups for him, he began to cut his way through the pack. It was too late; the best he could do was third-and prize money...
...raising it for a women's college, as Dean Mclntosh knows, is the limit. As a male educator once put it: "When a man wants to leave money to his college, he leaves it. When a woman wants to leave money to her college, she finds that her late husband has tied up her money in a trust fund so that she can't make a fool of herself...