Word: knew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro knew that he was on shaky ground. When Matos arrived for the trial at a movie theater at Havana's Camp Liberty, a crowd of rebel soldiers sent up an impromptu cheer-and were seized and hauled off to have their beards shaved for their impertinence. On the witness stand for a seven-hour harangue,* Castro produced not one fact to support the charge of treason. "I do not deny the merits of Huber Matos," said Castro, explaining that his crime was trying to "confound" the revolution by resigning. When Matos tried to interrupt, Prime Minister Castro snarled...
...Sand. To visitors last week, the foundry was still the place of weird shapes and leaping shadow that Duchamp-Villon and Brancusi knew well. In one room, sweet-smelling brown wax boiled on a rosy, potbellied stove. In the 100-ft.-long casting shed, coke fires hissed under fat crucibles shaped like medieval cannons, and overhead hoists trundled swaddled casts to their firing-pits. In a finishing room, a workman lay in the arms of a large bronze nude, reverently polishing her nose. In another corner, Marc Chagall supervised the application of a patina to his latest piece. Mustache quivering...
...Under our doctrine of 'objectivity.' what a man says is news whether or not it happens to be true. When Senator McCarthy made wild charges, we blew them up-even after we knew them to be untrue...
Leaves Canceled. In Buffalo, U.S.O. Director Mrs. Odessa Shipley thought she knew just how to entertain 230 visiting sailors from H.M.S. Scarborough, was terribly surprised when 1,000 tea bags went untouched...
...their employees pitched in and got the cattle off the boat. In all, Delfino lost about $30,000 on the first trip. "But it was well worth it," says he. "If I could go through all that trouble and still make out with the cattle in good shape, I knew it would be a profitable operation with good equipment and proper care...