Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night the Generalissimo gave a dinner for the Ambassador; it was an impressively cordial affair. Only one mishap marred the occasion. A photographer's flash bulb exploded within a foot of T. V. Soong's ear. Fragments of glass showered his shoulder. He made a face, then...
Each step requires long, patient, often exasperating practice. For a man who has lost an arm, even walking may be difficult at first, because of the change in his body balance. But the first day is made a thrilling occasion; when a man with an artificial leg is ready to...
Justice Robert H. Jackson concurred with the majority decision. But in his agreement, he took occasion to write words of cheer for businessmen. Employers, he said in effect, have not been getting their rights to free speech under labor's Magna Carta-the Wagner Act. Said Jackson: "I must...
Died. Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, 68, longtime sharer of Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1891, ailing, child-loving Author Stevenson learned from the U.S. Land Commissioner on Samoa, Henry Clay Ide, that because his daughter Anne was born on Christmas, she never got any...
Prime Minister Churchill was grim as he exhumed the "grim, bare bones" of the Polish question. He reported: "On Feb. 22 I said that at Teheran I took occasion to raise personally with Marshal Stalin the question of the future of Poland. It was with great pleasure that I heard...