Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parliament and the country were stunned: Mr. King had suddenly abandoned his lifelong opposition to conscription. Only three days before, McNaughton had insisted that the voluntary system of obtaining needed troops should be "given a fair trial." Only one day before, the Prime Minister himself had reiterated: "I do not believe that [conscription] is necessary." Terrific public pressure had forced him to change his mind...
...Arthur, a devout Quaker, lifelong teetotaler and bachelor, more philosopher than scientist, devoted his speculations mostly to the borderland between science and religion. Interested in the questions that science could not answer, he once remarked: "What do we really observe? Relativity theory has returned one answer-we only observe relations. Quantum theory returns another answer-we only observe probabilities...
...presence of the Americans on the floor during the debate broke a lifelong, 121-year-old Union tradition. Since the days (1830) when William Ewart Gladstone was its secretary,*the Union has firmly confined its visitors of every rank to the gallery...
When he was seven, his attention was attracted by an account of the inauguration of President Taft. That started Denis William Brogan off on a lifelong transatlantic career. He grew up to study at Harvard and become one of Britain's foremost authorities on the U.S. At 44 voluble, high-spirited Denis Brogan is professor of political science at Cambridge, wartime chief of the BBC's American Section of Intelligence. He has taught U.S. history at the University of London and U.S. Government at the London School of Economics, visited 40 States of the Union and written numerous...
With a bouncing performance by Walter Pidgeon, the lifelong romance of wise Susie and her empire-building Major is a disarming and refreshing story-far more successful than the double exposure which runs alongside it. This somewhat confusing countermelody concerns Grandmother Susie, the lone ruler of her late husband's empire; Grandson Amory, a Wall Streeter who has embezzled $31 million; and the crummiest set of moneygrubbing relatives since The Little Foxes. In a practical demonstration of her old Major's rugged sense of justice, Susie pays back the $31 million, leaving herself broke and sending the heirs...