Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Gabrielle Roy's novel Bonheur d'Occasion (Accidental Happiness) was published two years ago, Canadian critics called it the best book yet written about French Canadian working-class life. In less than a year it sold some 8,000 copies. That achievement made it a Canadian bestseller...
* Completely legendary. After writing his famous poem about Barbara, Poet John Greenleaf Whittier was told that Stonewall Jackson did not even pass the Frietchie house in Frederick, Md. and that if he had, Barbara could not have leaned out the window to speak her impassioned lines ("Shoot, if you must...
Ralph got his know-how the hard way. His Spanish-born parents died a few years after their arrival in Mexico City (where Ralph was born in 1908), and, at the age of ten, Ralph turned up in Shreveport, La., having gone along with a Mexican family just for the...
¶Pledged to shivering England (see FOREIGN NEWS) all possible U.S. help (which was politely refused by Prime Minister Attlee); improved the occasion by pointing out that all coal shipments to Europe would be disrupted if Congress didn't hurry up and extend the Maritime Commission's authority...
¶Was seized and bussed on the forehead by tall, bearded Archbishop Athenagoras, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America. The occasion: presentation of the Great Holy Cross of the Knights of the All-Holy Sepulchre and a piece of the Cross of Christ, as the...