Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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War planes from Long Island fields often flew over the big stadium, where people sat in the sun of flawless Indian summer afternoons to watch and hear the ritual of first-class tennis: the shots resonantly made and returned, the ball boys bobbing across the courts, the explosive verdicts of...
Across the East River, in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, the party's leaders met behind closed doors in urgent conference. The table, set for 30, was decorated with gladioli. The food was good, the occasion momentous. Out of such small, private, convention-eve dinners had come the name...
Occasion for Monsignor Ready's remarks was a Senate committee hearing on a bill introduced by Nevada's Pat McCarran to exempt about half the Washington religious property recently returned to the tax rolls. The McCarran bill would exempt only schools and churches, leaving other educational and religious...
For weeks & months, Standard's name had been taken in vain. Name-calling reached a peak when Senator Harry S. Truman shouted "Treason!" (TIME, April 6) on the occasion of Thurman Arnold's charges. Now it was Standard's turn to refute the charges and last week...
Chief Petty Officer Harold F. Dixon was the leader of the three. His story is an astonishing self-portrait. Dixon has no humble streak in his nature. At 41, "a tough old chief petty officer" with 22 years service behind him, he knew precisely what he meant to do with...