Word: knew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thermometer stood at 41°, the President of the U.S. removed his hat and topcoat, and stepped up to address the spectators: "Whenever I return here," said he, "I invariably sense, in these surroundings, an atmosphere of simplicity and peace ... My mind goes back nostalgically to the conditions I knew as a boy. We did not then know the term 'world tension'; life was peaceful, serene and happy...
Selected at random, the hapless four were the first of "several hundreds" whom the Finance Ministry plans to expose to publicity's unwelcome glare. But shrewd Antoine Pinay knew his compatriots too well to rely on shame alone: under new Finance Ministry regulations, police mounted guard over the homes of the four artless dodgers, prevented them from going to work, and withdrew their drivers' licenses. "They can appeal," said a Finance Ministry spokesman. "But we are refusing all settlement out of court. And they are all liable to at least six months in prison, plus fine, plus back...
Private Lives. Hammett had been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...
Times subscribers knew what this meant: the annual migration to St. Petersburg had begun. A mecca for retired oldsters-nearly one of four St. Petersburg residents is over 65, against a national average of one in twelve-the city is also a winter shelter for 75,000 chilled Northerners. Most of the newcomers are as far along in years as the steady customers in Central Avenue's blood-pressure shops (50? a reading) and the softball players on the St. Petersburg Pels and Gulls (age range: 50 to 75). As the visitors arrive, the need for additional obituary space...
Carol Stubblefield, 24, wife of an Idaho beet farmer, knew she was going to have twins, but not until they were born a month prematurely in late June, did she know that they were joined ("Siamese"). The high-powered surgical squad that prepared to separate Jeanett Kim from Denett Lin Stubblefield at the University of Oregon Hospitals in Portland knew that it would be an immensely difficult task, but not until the operation was far advanced did they know how difficult...