Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As World War II started, Cripps sat alone, an independent, in the House of Commons. Tory Churchill, who knew ability when he saw it, put him to work. As British Ambassador to Moscow, Cripps concluded the long-sought Anglo-Russian Pact. Cripps was so happy on this occasion that he...
¶ Soviet Military Governor Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky made his contribution to the occasion by taking "administrative measures" against a German newspaper that criticized the planned lavishness of Princess Elizabeth's wedding in the face of European hunger.
George Fox was once offered a captaincy in Cromwell's army. "I told them," he wrote in his Journal, "I knew from whence all wars arose, even from the lust, according to James's doctrine; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that...
The Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, which began to form around George Fox exactly 300 years ago, has done its sober best to take away the occasion for war by refusing to bear arms. "The leveled gun, the battle-brand, we may not take," wrote Quaker Poet John Greenleaf...
An Inspector Calls (by J. B. Priestley; produced by Courtney Burr & Lessor H. Grosberg) and, finding the smug, well-to-do Birling family all at home, accuses one startled member after another of being partly to blame for a young working girl's suicide. Mr. Birling had once sacked...