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Word: occasional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Chungking for the occasion came a scroll which, inscribed in President Chiang Kai-shek's own hand, bore a happy token for the future of China House and U.S.-Chinese friendship. Wrote the Generalissimo: "The way is one and the winds blow together."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: China House | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Tom Dewey made clear last week that he considers foreign policy a debatable campaign issue. For the first time he gave a detailed statement of his own ideas. They proved to be more Wilsonian than Rooseveltian. And he used the occasion to turn a klieg light on the man who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Debate Begins | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

However, this was not the occasion of excitement. The Captain's eyes were riveted on the flight deck from which he had launched 45 strikes in a period of a few months. His eyes glisten when he becomes excited and they were glistening now. And the imperturbable Commander Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Navy Chaplain Takes Inventory | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Mr. King's Liberal followers planned next week to toast an occasion: the 25th anniversary of his election as party leader.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: King of Canada | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

What the German pictures did not show, nor the papers tell, was that the "irate crowd" had been especially picked and hired for the occasion. Parisian trulls, pimps and petty criminals had been let out of jail if they promised to demonstrate against the Allied prisoners.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Gauntlet of Hate | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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