Word: mar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...converged on Rita's lawn again. Good as his word, Aly appeared with Rita for a smiling picture. Said Rita, "We are very happy to see each other." But, reporters asked, would they . . .? The answer was "No comment." Any plans, then? Yes, Aly was off to the Del Mar race track, and at the end of his visit he planned to "go to Kentucky to see some friends in the horse business...
...Died. María Eva Duarte de Perón, 33, co-ruler of Argentina; of cancer; in Buenos Aires (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...Yard, lunch with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, tea at Buckingham Palace along with some 7,000 other guests at the first garden party given by Queen Elizabeth II, dinner at the home of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., where guests enjoyed "a very subdued singsong or community hum." The trip, said Mar garet, has a two-fold purpose: to give her voice a rest and to escape from politics. Said she: "I've been to the last four conventions; I've served my time...
Armed with a magnifying glass and cheered on by old Napoleon buffs, De Langle began to unscramble the gibberish. He found that General Bertrand had made the job still more difficult by referring to himself not as "I," but as "Bertrand," or "the Grand Maréchal," or worst of all, since it invited confusion with Napoleon himself, as "he." It was three long years before De Langle could figure out who was talking to whom about what (at times even proper names were abbreviated to initials), and could interpret the above example...
...Napoleon has had a seesaw installed in the billiard room, and he asked the Grand Maréchal if he had any idea what...