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Now I stared at this antique that had emerged from my mother's closet, intact and ready to go, and reflected that I could use the occasion to write William, or Billie, and have a reunion of sorts.

But that failed, and instead both men have left the board: Mr Disney (pictured above, with chums) resigned at the weekend, rather than wait to be forced off because of his age, and Mr Gold left voluntarily on Monday, December 1st.Both men used the occasion to write long, bitter letters calling for Mr Eisner's head.

Machiavelli was first employed in 1520 by the cardinal to resolve a case of bankruptcy in Lucca, where he took the occasion to write a sketch of its government and to compose his The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca (1520; La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca).

Almost exactly a century after James, acting out of a profound discomfort at the possibility of self-exposure, turned down the occasion to write explicitly about homosexuality, the Irish journalist and novelist Colm Toibin did more or less the same thing, for more or less the same reasons.

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Writer takes this occasion to write a brief biography of E.B. White and to discuss his children's books.

One was meant to see it as a childish misspelling of "species", but the namers didn't bother thinking about how often a tiny child has occasion to write the word "species" (nor, as Ms Watkins points out, that it rhymes with "faeces").

I WOULD have laid 1,000-to-1 odds on what was coming next: his unsolicited ranking of the course, which, since I have occasion to write about golf now and again, he feels is obligatory.

Not long ago, I had occasion to write of the divide in virtue that separates us from Shakespeare, making the point that Shakespeare believed in fate, order, and forgiveness, whereas we believe in history, justice, and compassion, and that, superior though our moral progress may seem, there are bitter truths in the old trinity.

And yet Burnshaw was not a fan of the book, and took it as an occasion to write a takedown of Stevens's thinking generally.

The purchaser decided that he would not, under any circumstances, have occasion to write about his order.

They write, "Dear Miss Gallant, Thank God you had occasion to write me because you evidently not only haven't been getting your mail from Mr. Chambrun but from The New Yorker as well.

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