Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced with a lien of $61,221 on back federal income taxes, Joe could well use the $300,000 or so (before taxes) a comeback fight might bring him. Charles was willing, if not enthusiastic. Said he: "Well, now, I'd like to see him stay what he is-a great champion and a great man. But if they want to fix it up for me to fight him, I'll sure fight...
...were rumbling throughout the U.S. last week. In the Midwest, even individual TV stations joined the crusade. Walter J. Damm, general manager of Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV, which had already turned down NBC's Lights Out and CBS's Suspense, and called for a nationwide cleanup, said that? "the time has come for independent TV stations to take positive action about the whodunits." In St. Louis, General Manager George M. Burbach of KSD-TV said that he had been deluging NBC for months with "our objections to gory programs of all kinds. We're convinced that...
...preservation; other bodies, although skeletons, were still held together by their ligaments. How were the bodies preserved? The experts disagreed. Some attributed the mummification to the climate, others to some unknown process of embalming, probably of Moorish or perhaps even Egyptian origin. The nuns had a simpler explanation. Said Sister Blanca: "They were all saints. Their bodies could not decay...
Energetic Medievalist Gomez Moreno was exuberant. Said he: "Before this discovery, we could only guess what had been accomplished in the arts of weaving, embroidery, lace-making and knitting in the 13th Century. Now, people can see and actually touch the entire outfit of a 13th Century man or woman...
There were other revelations, said the enthusiastic Spaniards. Bobbin lace, formerly thought to have been unknown before the 16th Century, was found in the tombs, as was cloth from China. Until the opening of the Las Huelgas sarcophagi, Spanish historians had not been absolutely sure whether Enrique I of Castile died from a blow on the head at Palencia in 1217, or from natural causes. Enrique's skull, found in the tomb, confirmed the theory of violent death; it also showed what archeologists interpreted as advanced techniques of trepanation, demonstrating a medieval knowledge of surgery hitherto unsuspected...