Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...differences were at the same time the chief obstacle and the chief spur to a union which promised to be the forerunner of a more stable Western Europe...
After that there could be no doubt that Harry Truman's three-day trip to Mexico was an unqualified diplomatic success. The trip had been planned on the spur of the moment, and largely because of his friendship for Mexico's bald, beaming Ambassador Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros. The ambassador had suggested a visit one day last winter; the President had agreed wholeheartedly, then had said: "How about some time in March...
...cabins and prefabricated houses had been hauled north on sleighs. Tractor trains clanked in from Sherridon carrying hundreds of tons of supplies at a time. (On the return trip they carried back ore for extraction at a pilot plant set up in Sherridon.) There was talk of laying a spur railroad line from Sherridon north to Lynn Lake...
...that was the soul of the Savieur de France. I remember well the case of Reginald Arbutney, who gave the Longneck Theater its greatest evening in the first male "Joan." Unfortunately, Reginald was never allowed to follow his star for he inadvertently tied a corset string to one spur and thereby broke his neck mounting his white charger in the last act. May the Harvard Joan have more care. J. Thisby McManus...
Miss Day, who is 26, Mormon-bred, and does not smoke or drink, had an appropriate answer for that one. "Judge, why do you crucify me?" she asked. "Don't you want me to be happy?" The judge looked stern. "We did it on the spur of the moment," seconded 39-year-old Leo, hopefully. But Judge Dockweiler, apparently, had never seen the Dodgers play...