Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Real Peacemakers. If religious leaders on the home front are to make out of this war a new occasion for the Christian Church, they must be able to hear these deeper tones and to feel the pulse of character that beats beneath the surface. War is to American youths...
The presentation ceremonies had been planned with delicate subtlety. When Chiang arrived, the sponsors of the occasion led him into the adjoining room and offered him 25 minutes of solitude 'to contemplate his soul."
At twelve, at Harrow, he fell 30 feet off a bridge, broke his shoulder instead of his head. At 21, in Cuba, he walked untouched through a rain of bullets. At 23, in India, he jumped from boat to dock, misjudged, smasl ed again his once-broken right shoulder (on...
Now 38, Rhymer was once amazed at NBC because "you make me sound eccentric." He wrote his own autobiography for the publicity department: "The place of my birth was Fulton, 111. I tarried there a week. My family then moved to Bloomington, where I attended school for 14 years, at...
On occasion he was merry: downing champagne, toasting Roosevelt and Churchill, charging around the dinner table to touch glasses with one and all. But Stalin showed real emotion only once: when Churchill presented the Stalingrad sword (sent as a gift from King George VI "to the steel-hearted citizens of...