Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...episode, minus a few frills. But historians have since proved this account a forgery, written to document the celebration. Actual accounts paint a different picture of the day. The Continental troops, sick and ragged, were entrenched at the other end of Cambridge, unable to march. Washington himself makes no mention of taking command, merely stating that...
...goodness, do you realize what you have done? Don't you know by now that the mere mention of Kinsey's name calls for a flock of prejudiced letters? [TIME, Feb. 22]. And what of those poor parents who are concerned with bringing up their children as average, normal, well-adjusted citizens (heaven forbid!); think of the worries you have heaped upon them! It seems to be the general trend, even for laymen, to call all energy nothing but sexual drive-and if that is true, I say let us have a few more frustrated people...
...Bandleader Miller has been dead since 1944, when a plane carrying him to Paris-he was an Air Force major touring military posts with his band-went down in the English Channel. But millions of feet his music once made itchy will surely itch again at the mention of his name, and carry their owners off to see this picture...
...Three for Cooperstown" [TIME, Feb.1], you mention that Bill Terry holds the fourth highest batting average in modern baseball [after Hornsby, Heilmann, and Ruth]. Just how does Ty Cobb forfeit his modern-day baseball slot...
...remember the terrible Depression of 1930-32 . . ." Douglas did not mention the fact that, in 1949, President Harry Truman and Truman Economist Leon Keyserling called a worse slump "an inevitable adjustment," "a transition period," "a moderate decline...