Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitterness between India and Pakistan is a frightening thing which grows from day to day, sometimes from hour to hour. Newspapers of both sides report minor frontier clashes as major engagements, so that invasion seems imminent. Politicians remind their listeners of those terror-filled days in 1947, when 12 million Hindus and Moslems were uprooted from their homes, and perhaps another million (the exact figure may never be known) were massacred under conditions of unbelievable brutality. In five years since partition, neither country has solved the problems of this mass dislocation: each has millions-perhaps 8,000,000 between them...
...trade as both "barrelhouse" and blue, i.e., robust and fresh, with an undercurrent of seductiveness. It can spin out a slow tune with almost cello-like evenness, or take on a raucous bite in a fast rhythm. In a melancholy mood, it has a cinnamon flavor that tends to remind fans of happier days gone by-or soon to come. Moreover, thanks to the malocclusion of the Clooney jaw, her voice carries just a hint of a lisp. A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish," and "caress" like "caresh." Like Bing Crosby, who attributed some...
...H.A.A. wishes to remind ticket buyers that game time is 7:45 p.m. at the Boston Garden, and that tickets are available here. Only Stadium seats can be bought with coupons, and they must be purchased from the H.A.A...
Rather I would like to remind those who may have heard me speak in recent years at the Houses of my continuing concern with the defense of Europe and the need for unity of the free world. Some will recall my having said on more than one occasion that in my opinion the greatest threat to our national security is our failure to realize how great in fact is the threat. Those who have agreed with my diagnosis of the present danger will need no convincing when I say that I believe the position of the representative of the President...
...Caldwell at Nassau, doesn't like it, either. The persevering Smith, who kept running for a full afternoon last fall against Harvard to set a record, feels that "it is a shame for the thousands of boys who won't get a chance to play." We must remind Smith that there were, indeed, many thousands of boys who didn't play under the old rule...