Word: whilst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful prosecution of a war. . . . [If anyone] feels confident that he can give me good advice in the war which I am to conduct, let him . . . go with me to Macedonia. . . . If anyone thinks this too much trouble, let him not try to act as a sea pilot whilst he is on land. . . . Is that a classic? asked the President triumphantly...
...Murray was a footsore, angry man with just enough dry humor left to make one crack. Accepting a gavel from Pittsburgh steelworkers, he remarked wryly that he had had to stop Milwaukee delegates from presenting him with a piece of Wisconsin cheese. Said Murray with his thick Scots burr: "Whilst the intent is good, it obviously would not be in good taste for the President . . . under these circumstances to either accept a ham or a piece of cheese...
...skin our eyes for fire bombs. They cross the city from (half a line censored) again and again... looking for something, or taking bearings. Now they are over us; now they are away to the north; they are dropping flares and a section of the city is incarmined, whilst above innumerable search light beams thrash the inky sky. Within a few seconds the flares are shot out, and the sky darkens. The search lights follow the planes South.... West... back again in a great triangle, and then more flares drop slowly to earth showing up black buildings against the same...
...scarcely closed, when a strange delusion arose in Germany . . . and excited the astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries. . . . It was called the dance of St. John or of St. Vitus, on account of the Bacchantic leaps by which it was characterized, and which gave to those affected, whilst performing their wild dance, and screaming and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed...
...Your alleged wonderful news organization for the war in Europe might impress a few "Innocents" abroad and at home, whilst to those who can compare what is actually happening with what your "war-correspondents" report it is but a silly joke if you pretend to supply reliable information...