Word: knew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end nine persons were known dead. It would be days or weeks before anyone knew how many others might lie buried beneath the 150-350 ft. of fallen rock. But the American Red Cross, compiling a list based on reports from relatives and friends, said at least 1,500 were known to have been in the area who have not reappeared...
...terrorist technique was becoming monotonously familiar: well-trained Communist bands from North Viet Nam came out of hiding after midnight to attack isolated Laotian army outposts, retiring before dawn to let Laotian Communist groups of the Pathet Lao continue the fighting in daylight. This device hardly deceived anyone-everyone knew that Laos' little war is sparked and sponsored by outsiders-but it kept up appearances...
...Athalia, who ruled Judea from 842 B.C. to 836 B.C., and Queen Salome Alexandra, who succeeded to the throne after the death of her husband in 76 B.C. Last week in Israel a third woman took over, but for the first two days not even members of the Cabinet knew it. Finally, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, 61, rose in the Cabinet to inform her colleagues that Premier David Ben-Gurion, 72, had set sail for a much-needed vacation on the Riviera, had kept his departure secret to avoid any fuss. Before he left, he had written a letter designating...
...year-old rightfielder couldn't help it. After all, Harry Murphy was pitching for the Braves. Maybe Murph was only ten, but Murph already weighed no Ibs., and was 5 ft. 2 in. tall. And when Murph scowled and bit his tongue and threw his submarine ball, everyone knew that he was just as fast as most of the big kids in town. Still, the eight-year-old managed to stand up at the plate and take his three cuts, even though all the kids and parents in the park could tell only too well that...
...Satyricon of Petronius, translated by William Arrowsmith. Antic haymaking in Nero's gaudy, bawdy Rome, described by a satirist who knew his satyrs...