Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the city was almost completely blacked out, the pilots, flying in at 3,000 feet, could see targets in the brilliant moonlight-piers against the light-flooded bay, the central part of the city flanking the Pasig River. Fortunately the pilots were friendly, the targets make-believe, the blackout...
Already stripped of many old traditions, Eton last week sacrificed one of its most sacred: its uniform. The world's best-dressed schoolboys always had to wear black striped trousers with their Eton jackets, a different prescribed outfit for every occasion, every sport. Headmaster Claude Elliott sent to parents...
Once he inquired: "What aid to feminine beauty do you detest most?" Prompt was the answer of a frustrated male: "Bust developers made of sponge rubber." On another occasion he posed the question: "Did you ever kiss a man with a beard, and what reaction was there?" A girl replied...
On another occasion in Times Square he inquired of an ornate damsel sitting in the back of a limousine with the top down: "Is the shimmy a moral and proper dance?" She answered in vehement affirmative. Her name turned out to be Gilda Gray.
Uncertain Japan still struggled to revise her foreign policy in the light of the new facts of that war. For hours an imperial conference, graced on this momentous occasion by the presence of the Emperor himself, wrestled with the problems of statecraft. The conferees emerged with their decision. But the...