Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle would continue. Its issues, little understood in the U.S., might turn out to be more important than anything on which the Big Four Foreign Ministers might agree. Europe's political future and its military defense were closely tied up with its economic prospects. Would Europe develop toward a great unified area of free trade? Or would each nation protect itself with barriers which would strengthen the parts but weaken the whole...
...either side, the four-lane Paseo was flanked by tree-shaded islands that separated it from one-way lanes beyond. Students studied on the islands' marble benches. On summer nights, romantic couples often had to wait their turn for bench space. Nearby stood statues of 19th Century Mexican heroes. When placed there in the '90s, they represented the most notable sons of the Mexican states, but time gradually rubbed out their fame...
...child of the relatively obscure Duke of York and as the daughter of the King, Margaret has been a younger sister. She has never much liked the role. Not that she dislikes sister Lilibet or even envies her; she has just never enjoyed second place. In her turn, Lilibet has always treated her little sister as an unpredictable child who must be watched...
...delivered an autocrat's final warning: "If the Rollins faculty reverts to the lecture and recitation system with their inevitable grades and examinations, all of which tend to make the professor a detective and the student a bluffer, then you may hear the creaking sound as I turn over in my grave...
Howard plays a successful violinist who, returning to his home in Sweden from an American concert tour, must find a new accompanist because his old one is about to retire. Who should turn up to fill the post but his little daughter's piano teacher, played by Miss Bergman. Several arpeggios and one bottle of champagne later, the two have fallen deeply in love; a fortunate thing for the audience, but most unfortunate for Howard's wife and two children and Miss Bergman's promising career as a pianist...