Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Frank Maxwell Andrews spoke these words in 1935 in discussing the chances of attack on the U.S. by an enemy using bases in South America or the Caribbean. The occasion was a supposedly secret session of a House committee, but his testimony was made public by error.
To Hollywood reporters he moaned more. He mentioned sadly an occasion a few weeks back when he was prevented from quoting a piece in Photoplay in which one "Fearless" complained that Myrna Loy had "stenographer's spread," Gary Cooper and James Stewart spindle legs. Fidler also pointed out that...
The occasion was manufactured to give inspiration to national defense workers, comfort to the U.S.'s allies. But the achievement was real. Nine months previously the first shovelful of dirt had been turned on a site where the plant was to grow. Now it stood there complete, more than...
More cinema stars than had ever turned out for any public occasion showed themselves at Los Angeles' "Moon Festival" for United China Relief, but it was silken-banged Anna May Wong who rode in the parade with Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Supporting cast of more than 100 in the charity...
> Cott quotes a fellow naturalist: "In . . . Tanganyika a small moth resembling a bird-dropping was not uncommon. On one occasion I observed what I thought to be one on a leaf, but after a close examination from a distance of only a few inches I discovered (to my own satisfaction...