Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The Fiumicino story came to my knowledge quite by chance. It was the Aug. 15 Feast of Assumption of Our Lady -an occasion when Rome literally empties itself. A friend, a glass cutter who has a studio near by, and who, like me, owns a motorcycle, proposed that as the...
For Athenians there was one happy occasion last week. At Piraeus, the port of Athens, Archbishop Damaskinos said a blessing over a bargeload of flour (see cut). It was the first tangible evidence of the $17,000,000 worth of supplies sped to Greece under the U.S. aid program.
Atop the stadium at Forest Hills fluttered the flags of the U.S., Australia, the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and the West Side Tennis Club. As grave and important as Cabinet ministers, tennis' venerable scribes and pharisees sat in the marquee. It was a state occasion. On a table at...
Fall River Line. Last week Joe Martin Day turned out a boisterous success. From his home in North Attleboro, Martin drove through streets decked with bunting to the City Hall, where a huge picture of him had been erected over the door. The stores had closed for the occasion and...
Old Legionnaire Harry Truman did not think he could make it this year. With him absent, Legionnaires planned their biggest cheers for Chief of Staff Ike Eisenhower. There were already rumors that Legion bigwigs would seize the occasion to get an Eisenhower-for-President bandwagon rolling, under Legion auspices. If...