Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On a third occasion she had overheard one of her bosses talking about "the $1,000 for Yankel." That, she explained, was their nickname for Andrew Jackson May. (Added a committee counsel: "Yiddish for Little Jack. . . . It means he is not too smart.") Said Eleanor Hall succinctly: "a bunch of...
After dusk (not a single room was left and latecomers slept in the streets) fireworks crackled in the peaceful sky, and at the Casino there were sounds of snobbery by night: 40 British airmen who flew over for the occasion forgot their dress suits, and were turned away from the...
The Quiet Life. It is doubtful if Salazar likes either the salute or the slogan. Unlike all other modern dictators, he hates parades, pomp or cheers. When he rides to ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his...
A "revolutionary" and "heretical" theory of childbirth has been preached for years by a London obstetrician: that childbirth is not naturally painful, that rather it should be an occasion of "exaltation and incomparable happiness." The cause of women's agony, insists Dr. Grantly Dick Read, is fear-a traditional...
The A.M.A.'s new president, Dr. Harrison H. Shoulders of Nashville, told doctors' wives that they must join the fight. Said he: "Infiltrate yourselves as individuals into other women's groups so that when the occasion arises you can influence others. . . ." A gregarious, balding surgeon, Dr. Shoulders...