Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the chamber hung an atmosphere of a Great Occasion, an air grave and chilling. Most of the speeches were set pieces, delivered from manuscript. Exchanges were sparse. The Administration's strategy -permitting the opposition orators to wear themselves out, unanswered-worked well. And from the start the isolationists...
> Dear Tommy: 86, 120, love, Jacqueline. This would read: "Daughter born. I wish we were together on this occasion."
Occasion was the annual wintersports meet at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, site of the 1936 winter Olympics. No records were made by the skaters in the Olympic Stadium, none by the skiers on the glittering slopes of the Eckenberg. The big show was the crowd itself, which came in well-heeled thousands...
Occasion was a White House press conference-longest in many a month. The conference started slowly, with routine questions. But veteran correspondents noticed the President's nervous swiveling sensed that he had something important on his mind. They were right. Queried one: Was it true, as General Marshall was...
Last month the British War Relief Society asked lofty Playwright Maxwell Anderson to write a poem for the program booklet for the big forthcoming "Carnival for Britain" in Manhattan. Author Anderson enthusiastically chipped in with an indignant set of quatrains on a text: "That man's face is a...