Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday book page. His reviews are calm, clear, essayish. He reads the books commuting to & from his home near the University of California campus in Berkeley, and in bed before going to sleep. (He is careful to vary his schedule of commuting trains so that acquaintances will not interrupt his reading.) Youthful-looking, smooth-featured, with clear blue eyes and invariably wrinkled clothes, he has a perpetual air of urbanity, never loses his temper or tells people stories they have heard before. He lives with his pretty wife Charlotte (who writes children's books) and his daughter Marion...
...President of the Court read the accusation in detail to each prisoner. The accused was permitted to interrupt, deny any point, turn the reading into a conversation between judge and defendant. Counsels for the defense, most of them assigned by the court to take on the unpopular cases, stood by to press points of law favorable to their clients. Such time-consuming luxuries as character witnesses were barred. The cases were ticked off quickly. It took just 90 minutes to try and convict Suarez...
Since the Fourth War Loan. House chairman have turned in over $1600 in War Bonds and Stamps. The Fifth War Loan Drive will not be participated in by the College through PBH, because if lasts from June 12 through July 1 when examinations and vacation will interrupt the War Service Committee's activities...
...bridgehead itself the Allies have a very strong army and superiority in both artillery and tanks. Although spells of bad weather interrupt from time to time the deliveries of supplies, the amount landed . . . substantially exceeds the schedule prescribed. ... All battles are anxious as they approach the climax, but there is no justification for pessimism...
...very good lookout in the darkness. I could see the Italians driving about in cars, and every now & then a chap would go by with his girl friend, smoking a cigaret. I could hear the dogs barking. It was all frightfully peaceful. I felt we were swine to interrupt...