Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly past midnight a group of about eight or ten dark figures darted through the moonlight toward the Poplarville, Miss. courthouse. Opening a window, they slipped into the sheriff's office. They seemed to know that the jailer had gone for the night. They knew, too, that the cell keys were in a metal cabinet in the sheriff's office. Some of the raiders waited in the darkened second-floor courtroom, while a few others, wearing gloves and masks, pushed their way through the courtroom into the cell area just above. A voice barked and startled Prisoner...
...defiance, a single lapse of authority-such as an army unit's refusal to fire on a handful of insubordinate peasants in a commune-might set off a chain reaction. No one saw such prospects now. Yet better than anyone else, Red China's outwardly confident rulers know that great leaps involve the risk of disastrous falls...
...planes come from behind the Iron Curtain? The West German Defense Ministry did not know. Then what of the extensive and expensive radar net set up by West Germany and its NATO allies to prevent just such incursions? A Defense spokesman replied embarrassedly that there had been no reports of planes appearing on any radar screen, and added bleakly: "We have no idea what aircraft bombed Knechtsand. The investigation is continuing...
...Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, signed into a Manhattan hospital, where surgeons will check up on a chest tumor. Discounting the "ivy growing in this old Irish ruin," Airman Godfrey gamely commented: "Even if the tumor is malignant, I think I've 'caught it in time-and I know people who've lived a long time with only one lung. I've flown one-engine before...
Said the New Statesman: "It is his capacity that is in doubt, not his will . . . The result is hand-to-mouth government, without either a set purpose or the political know-how to carry out whatever vague aims the President may conceive...