Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white reproductions are the best I've seen, and the color photos of Japanese gardens are superb. I was swept with sentimentality when I saw the reproduction of the moss garden of Kyoto's Saihoji monastery. While stationed at Johnson Air Base, near Tokyo, I used to know a patch of wood that resembled this garden. G.I.s living in my barracks walked through it to reach the service club. On the rainy, magic-like mornings of spring and summer, the spot was like another world. Most of us will never see Japan again, and many thousands of veterans...
...speculated that the U.S. might be ready to change its position on nuclear-weapons tests, which was that the U.S. would not stop the tests unless the U.S.S.R. also stopped nuclear-weapons production. The new line: after this spring's nuclear tests at Eniwetok Atoll, the U.S. will know more about "clean bombs'' for limited wars, hence will have less to lose by agreeing to a stoppage of tests without any Russian payment in return. Dulles himself seemed to signal some change in emphasis in recent testimony to a closed session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...pressing the flesh and looking them in the eye." Says he: "When you extend a handshake to a fellow, you can sort of feel his pulse and evaluate him by the way his hand feels. If it's warm and if it has a firm clasp, then you know that he is affectionate and that he is direct. And if he looks you in the eye, you usually know that he is dependable...
...pushed D'el Rey stock up to $12 per share, both Hanna and Banker Model backed off. Eventually the Osborne syndicate picked up 35% of the stock and control of D'el Key. The only trouble was that the new owners lacked the capital and the mining know-how to make the mine pay off, and asked Banker Model for help. He, in turn, went to M. A. Hanna...
...Conway) and fed the leftovers to a crocodile that is kept around as a sort of garbage-disposal unit. No sooner does the monster come out of the anesthetic than Professor Frankenstein, in deadly earnest, commands him: "Speak! You've got a civil tongue in your head. I know you have because I sewed it in myself...