Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregon, Deweymen assessed the damage done by Stassen's four-day visit, began wondering whether their man should not come out for a speech before the May 21 primary. In Wisconsin, which Dewey had confidently neglected, Stassen had suddenly forged ahead, was now conceded to hold the lead. Belatedly, Dewey strategists noticed that their slate in the April 6 primary lacked outstanding names. Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, the state's most potent vote-getter, who had helped Dewey defeat Willkie in the 1944 primary, had deserted to head the Mac-Arthur forces. Sparked by Senator Joe McCarthy...
...other's language, they communicated by simply saying, "Petite marmite!" Dali went on: "Every time that this same idea mysteriously put our two souls in communication, one or the other of us ... would pronounce the magic phrase, 'Petite Marmite!' ... On moonlight nights we used to ... visit a gigantic spider. . . . From time to time I get a telegram which says 'Spider,' and I wire right back, 'Petite Marmite.' Then I usually get another wire . . . with just the word 'Petite.' And thus our friendship goes on, forever unalterable, since the thing that breaks...
...same time, the Office announced that personnel representatives of 24 leading business firms would visit the College this month to interview prospective June graduates...
Showman Gonzalez was not alone in the international claim-staking act. The Argentines were in a dispute with the British over Antarctic lands and the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Argentine Task Force I, five ships with no fewer than five admirals aboard, had pushed south to visit the outpost on Deception Island. It made quite a show of power, especially since the Argentine hut on Deception is only 80 feet from the British base. But when the Argentines learned that the British had sent the 8,000-ton cruiser Nigeria from South Africa to the same waters, they cried...
...another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal of her love. She persuaded him to tear up his passport. Then came the war: France considered him an enemy alien; when he tried to enlist...