Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farran did not die. He fought with the maquis in France and with a group of girl partisans in Italy. Later, he described his adventures with almost boyish enthusiasm ("One girl in particular will always remain in my memory . . . She was a tall, raven-haired girl with Irish blue eyes . . . as brave and dangerous as a tigress and was completely devoted to the British company . . ."). He felt lost when peace came. "I always expected to be killed in battle," he said. "Now I was left stranded, spared by some odd trick of fate...
Would he be as religious-minded as his predecessor, Nicholas Murray Butler? Said Eisenhower: "I am one of the most intensely religious people I've ever known. That doesn't mean that I necessarily adhere to any particular sect . . ."*Was he planning to make any drastic changes? Replied Ike carefully: "I hope to become a useful member of the community, of which, frankly, I have always been frightened. It is going to be quite a task for me. I have nothing to say about education. I don't know enough about it. Right...
Domergue's Black Widow was the same cute trick who made him famous. "I have been painting this girl for 25 years," said Domergue happily. "Of course when I started she wasn't called a pinup, but she has developed into one. Now this particular painting I have been thinking of for ten years; one day it suddenly came to me. It is the eternal drama of the man pursuing the woman. He is successful in the end, but, as in so many cases, he is spiritually killed...
...have taken such action, let the representatives meet and remain together long enough to know one another, long enough for another Pentecost. Let them draft a Plan of Union . . . Let the representatives be charged solemnly to keep their eyes upon the Christ rather than on the practices of a particular communion . .. Agreement is possible . . . Let the Methodists take the lead in a great affirmative decision, stating that we desire union...
...Council has apparently been far less efficient in carrying out its share of the proposals--proposals made by its own special committee. Most important are those particular recommendations that have to do with the Class Album: the committee outlined a system under which a Temporary Album Committee was to be appointed in a class's sophomore year, and an Editor chosen in the early spring of the junior year. Without these two pieces of action, the Album cannot be the "complete record of the class" that the committee envisioned; nor, as the most recent two Albums discovered, can the yearbook...