Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The decision to televise the Gracious Speech had caused heartburn among Laborites. who feared that some of the Queen's prestige might rub off on the governing Tory Party. The pallid words that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government put in the Queen's mouth about "My...
Angelo Roncalli has no Caesarean ambitions, but he did not tiptoe into his reign; he stomped in boldly like the owner of the place, throwing open windows and moving furniture around. When the portly Pope (robed in the too-tight papal vestments excited chamberlains had selected for him) appeared in...
Golf pros may blow easy putts, a tennis champ double faults, and it is only reasonable to expect on occasion a painter will turn out a turkey, even as great a painter as Rembrandt. But with all due allowances for human frailty, Rembrandt's early St. Bartholomew has long...
Another maneuver designed to take advantage of the same weakness was a flashy double-reverse known as the "Sally Rand." The Quakers used it only twice; but the first time it went for a touchdown (from the Harvard 21), and on the other occasion it provided 24 crucial yards in...
This was a most important game for the Crimson as Penn is probably the strongest team it will have to face in the Ivy League. The varsity could not have been in this contest if it played the brand of soccer it had in the past two weeks, and it...