Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airport with most of his Cabinet, an honor guard from the 82nd Airborne Division and a 21-gun salute. President Aleman would address a joint session of the Congress, stay at least one night at the White House, travel to Mount Vernon on the presidential yacht Williams burg, and use the presidential Pullman for a trip to New York (which also planned an oldtime, ticker-tape reception...
Togliatti is married to Rita Montagnana, a former seamstress, who leads Italy's Communist women and is a loyal party workhorse. She is a big, handsome, white-haired, brown-eyed woman. The Togliattis live in the sumptuous residence of a former Fascist minister, but use only a few rooms...
...Between the U.S. and China there is at present sad lack of contact and understanding. Communists and those they use . . . have succeeded in making Americans with some notable exceptions believe that China is only chaos, gloom, and doubt. ... So pervasive and persistent is that feeling that Americans prefer to sit back and wait, so far as China is concerned...
...brass interludes in his familiar fugal style, is perhaps a shade expeditious for so picturesque a subject. It trips, or rather bumps along in a jolly fashion that depicts little and scares no one; but it is distinguished music, if a bit ineffective (largely on account of the constant use of contrapuntal repeating-patterns) in its efforts at vividness. Its most vigorously expressive moment is one that describes the gnashing of teeth...
Armed with letters from her professors and deans, the Vassarite, who hails from Cambridge, reported to the Library two weeks ago to gain the use of the stacks and reading rooms to write her term papers. Facing her is enough work to give any English A student nightmares, with a 30 page history thesis, and ten and five page English themes...