Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alben Barkley had not always felt that close to Harry Truman. In the last three years, as Truman's Senate leader, he was often caught flatfooted by Administration proposals of which he had had no previous notice. On one such occasion he angrily told a White House aide: "This...
The earthquake was the second eventful occasion in Mydans' life in which General Swing figured-the first having been when he accompanied the General, then commander of the 11th Airborne Division, back into Japan on occupation day, August 30, 1945.
In 1923, it had been 50 years since the twin cities of Buda and Pest had been welded into one, and the city fathers wanted some commemorative music. They chose a black-bearded Hungarian named Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with so high) to write it. The Psalmus Hungaricus that he wrote...
Hover gets yeoman assistance from the daily gossip columnists. On occasion, they have reported enough celebrities in Giro's to fill a large section of the Hollywood Bowl. Hover encourages these exaggerations by spending $125,000 a year to promote the legend that anyone seen at Giro's...
For three days, in the palaces of Ibn Saud's capital, Riyadh, they ceremoniously entertained each other. After dinner one night, Ibn Saud's court poet intoned a piece written for the occasion. Sample: