Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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We think it would be the finest compliment to all people who have been mistreated by Nazi bestiality that, upon the occasion of the American-British entry into Berlin, the name of Berlin be forever erased from the map and the city renamed Lidice.
Governor Leverett E. Saltonstall '14, president of the Board of Overseers, was present at the ceremonies, as was Vice-Admiral Ross T. McIntire, (MC) USN, Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy, who addressed the gathering as the chief speaker of the occasion.
This panoply of efficiency is no more invariably efficient than its parallels in civilian life. There was one occasion last spring when his Washington superiors, after a checkup, temporarily stepped in to help. With invasion only a few weeks away, General Lee's organization had not yet ordered 214...
One night last week the telephone jangled in the big colonial Governor's mansion on the hilltop at Austin, Tex. The White House was calling Governor Stevenson. This was a rare occasion. Tall, leathery Coke Stevenson is no ardent New Dealer.
It was clearly the occasion, and not the play - Ibsen's Peer Gynt - that made tickets scarcer than hen's eggs and fetched everybody from Noel Coward in specs to G.I. William Saroyan. But Lady Colefax's typical suspiration, "If one's friends will put on...