Word: knew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep up his courage. Buie began singing the only song whose words he knew-Tennessee Waltz. After about the sixth chorus, his voice had splintered to a teeth-chattering accompaniment, and Buie began to lose hope. He dozed a while. Then, two hours after he went overboard, he saw lights. It was the escort vessel Leslie L. B. Knox, sailing a random course between exercises. Buie yelled. A sharp-eared sailor on watch heard him, sounded the emergency rescue alarm. Searchlights blazed. Knox's helm swung hard over to circle, and Rescue Swimmer Harold Martin, 19, dived over...
...prepared to leave the country, Philip assured his hosts that the Queen herself would be coming out in 1961 to pay a postponed visit. Though the thought was delicately left unspoken, everyone knew that by then Ghana would probably be the Commonwealth's third republic, recognizing Elizabeth, as India and Pakistan do, not as Queen but merely as symbolic head of the Commonwealth...
...intrigue, he was a man to reckon with. His next official job was to coordinate the work of all military attaches in Polish embassies throughout the world, which, in a Communist country, meant that Monat had access to political as well as military intelligence and espionage, and presumably knew all there was to be known. Hard-working and trusted, Monat apparently had no trouble last summer getting permission to take his wife and child on a vacation in Communist Yugoslavia...
...first eleven months no "pusher" approached him. "The record-company guys," he told a TIME correspondent in Detroit last week, "went to the bigger men here. I didn't care because I knew when I was Number One they would come to me. First a guy would ask me to coffee, but I was sardonic and I would say, 'Wait until I get to the dinner stage. huh?' When I was finally asked out to dinner, I knew I was Number One. Payola comes to the top disk jockeys, so isn't this the greatest compliment...
Alone in his boat, the burly driver was grinning like a schoolboy. On a trial run, his speedometer had climbed past 260 m.p.h. as he shot his new jet-powered, aluminum-hulled Tempo-Alcoa over the startling blue surface of Nevada's Pyramid Lake. Driver Les Staudacher knew that the sleek water monster he had designed was ready for an official try at the world record of 260.35 m.p.h. held by Britain's Donald Campbell and his Bluebird...