Word: present
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...case, the baby would probably ascend the throne as George VII (the present King was known as Albert when he was a prince). Ebullient Princess Margaret pointed out the only possible drawback to the new name. "Now," she said, "I suppose they'll call me Charlie's Aunt...
...Diet Building. I demand he be called before this session to explain the budget bill." After seven more minutes of bedlam, the house recessed again, to reopen at 10:23 with embarrassed Premier Shigeru Yoshida himself manfully mounting the rostrum to apologize for Izumiyama's inability to be present...
...time managing his Mexico City real-estate holdings and listening to the wild flamenco music of the Spanish gypsies, on which he has made himself an authority. Each year he follows the bullfighting season from Spain to Mexico, and like many another oldtimer rates the past over the present. Growls Gaona: "In my day the bulls were so smart that they spoke English...
...Alphonso de Zulueta, "subject to the usual conditions of the Catholic Church," that is to say: 1) no other religious wedding ceremony could be performed; 2) any children of the marriage were to be brought up as Roman Catholics. The groom's mother and five brothers were present, but his father was unable to attend. He is Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury...
Because of the children, Clingman agreed to stay for a year. He organized Saturday sports-soccer, football, baseball. Other boys began coming, sons of gardeners, or "river rats" who fish for a living. The children brought their parents, helped build the congregation up to its present 210, with a healthier cross section of rich and poor...