Word: knew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While looking at the cover picture, I wondered where I had seen this charming face before. And all of a sudden, I knew: it reminded me of the face of Regelindis, a statue in the famous Cathedral of Naumburg Saale, now in East Germany, made by an unknown sculptor 700 years ago. Isn't it all there...
Nixon-style, he would thrust his hand at surprised tourists, introduce himself, pat the heads of little children. Few knew who he was, but he was eager to autograph any handy piece of paper, insistently got himself photographed by camera fans ("Send the picture to me. Kozlov, the Kremlin, Moscow"). Accosting one woman during a supermarket tour, he asked whether she was the mother of a child who was with her. "No," replied the elderly woman. "I'm a grandmother." "Ah," roared Kozlov, "but you are so young...
...four-man jury still knew what it liked, snapped back a telegram to the President describing the Moscow offerings as "the broadest, most representative exhibition of American art of the last 30 years ever sent abroad by our Government." And Manhattan Art Dealer Edith
...Belgium's King Baudouin, made his first discreet inquiry last November. "She is nice, but so shy that you hardly know whether she's around or not." By the time Prince Albert got back from Rome after attending the coronation of Pope John XXIII, all the world knew that Paola was around. The gossipists reported that Albert had fallen in love with her at first sight, proposed to her at second. Last week the people of Brussels chanted her name, and the bells of the churches acclaimed her marriage...
...Inventor Glaser delivered his classic paper at a Washington physics convention. Physicist Luis Alvarez, associate director of the Radiation Lab, was not in the audience. He was at the White House delivering a strobo-scopic gadget he had invented to improve President Eisenhower's golf game. But Alvarez knew about the Glaser paper, and had plans for improvements. The best liquid to use, he thought, was not ether; it was pure liquid hydrogen, which contains no carbon or oxygen atoms to confuse researchers...