Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could doubt that the suspense was deliberate, the buildup carefully calculated by the masters of drama and timing who were directing it. The German people were being prepared for a choice-one that few expected them to make at once, but which would henceforth haunt their days and dreams. One alternative was being presented at Berlin...
...next day, the pretty, but not too pretty, intelligent, but not too intelligent young wife gave birth to a perfect specimen of manhood. The handsome young CPA Sr. announced that the perfect baby would be named a fine steady name--John Adams Hancock to haunt pretty, but not too pretty, intelligent, but not too intelligent (etc.) young WAVES...
Bits & Pieces. For more than a decade it was an informal evening haunt of lecturers and avid students. They might study bits & pieces of history, psychoanalysis, drama, philosophy. They pooh-poohed examinations, degrees. It was all very earnest, and somewhat mixed up. New-Schoolers took the unacademic hash and let the credit...
...exterior was restored and Holden, until the present day, has been the headquarters of the odds and ends department of the college. Recently the favorite haunt of speech classes, it is now a Navy storeroom. Students pass by without noticing it, usually totally ignorant of its history. The decorative applied heraldry on the east pediment no longer has any significance. To the Navy sentries it is just another ivy covered Harvard building...
...risen from the ranks, like the great Marshals of the First Empire." His enemies whispered that he aimed to depose Maximilian and get the throne of Mexico for himself. But when Lee surrendered at Appomattox and the danger of a U.S. threat from the north began to haunt Napoleon III, Bazaine's days in Mexico were over. The French sailed home...