Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the serious business of the occasion was left to the ladies. The Governor's sister and official hostess, Mrs. Francis Hastings Hastings-Brooke, and Lady Kennedy-Purvis, wife of the commander of the Royal Navy's American and West Indies squadron, advanced. To the Duke, as was...
In the course of the trial it was proved that Sir Walter and his colleagues did not return from France on a French destroyer, had on no occasion agreed to a proposal by Sir John Simon that rises in wages should be stopped.
Last week the Army went back to field uniform (khaki or O. D.). Issued at Washington was an order putting the new blues and all other formal uniforms back into moth balls except for one kind of occasion-social functions at the White House.
Mrs. Miniver is haunted by evanescence. Each of her little sketches has the same haunted quality, an echo of the sense of time slipping away, which is Mrs. Miniver's main concern. Her frail net of words is flung to rescue from oblivion only the most available, most familiar...
When British fighters repeatedly broke up their bomber formations prematurely (on one occasion six Hurricanes dispersed 40 Dorniers attended by 40 Messerschmitts),the Germans tried the system of sending ships over singly or in groups of two and three, striking at numerous places the same day. This plan thinned out...