Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In industrial Manchester and Yorkshire, William Temple found ample occasion to raise his voice against social and economic injustice. He once horrified the Chancellor of the Exchequer by suggesting that a budget surplus should be given to the unemployed rather than used to reduce taxes. Ruddy, fat-cheeked, jolly Dr...
The Navy had already tried 207 other Negro sailormen and found them guilty of disobeying orders on the same rebellious occasion. Unlike the 50, the 207 had not persisted in their refusal to load explosives. Punishments (also unannounced) were undoubtedly lighter.
One night last month some 40 people gathered in the large, old-fashioned pent house apartment of Mrs. Hugh Bullock in Manhattan for the most trying occasion in the literary life - a poetry reading. They were publishers, editors, critics, poets, a few patrons of poetry. They heard the first formal...
¶ Lie-or legend-it was Parson Weems. Wrote he: "In the winter of '77, while Washington, with the American Army, lay encamped at Valley Forge, a certain good old Friend, of the respectable family and name of Potts, if I mistake not, had occasion to pass through the...
The Church of England's second ranking hierarch, the Archbishop of York, spoke too of Germany. In June he had cried: "We are fighting against cruelty, tyranny and treachery in their most detestable forms. That is why we cannot agree with the Pope when he coupled together those who...