Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more confident sentences, Scott Lucas dumped the rest of Harry Truman's fondest projects over the side. Lucas saw little hope for the Fair Deal's social program. He "seriously doubted" if anything could be done about civil rights. "We had a program that couldn't possibly be enacted by any Congress in seven months," he added (though Harry Truman, a year ago, had said that the "terrible" 80th Congress could pass a comparable program in 15 days, if it really wanted...
...Nationalist spokesman was shouting words of defiance, something else was happening around Shanghai's defense perimeter. From his vantage point on the twelfth floor of the massive Picardie Apartments in Shanghai's old French concession, an American looked south over Lunghua airport. Later he described what he saw: "There were sharp bursts of machine-gun fire from the south. Then, within minutes, every road into the city was clogged with retreating Nationalist soldiers and civilians. Soldiers who were walking yanked civilians from their bicycles and pedicabs. The soldiers ran and fought and pushed...
...Saw Compound E Lack...
...almost three months the British had wrangled over whether the picture should be shown. A critic who saw it in Brussels urged that its exhibition be restricted to such professionals as doctors and magistrates. Published stills stimulated organized squeamishness; 140 London nurses petitioned the board of film censors to keep The Snake Pit off British screens because it showed "mental hospital nurses as harsh, unemotional and often cruel...
...Foote's case, the more he dealt with his Russian masters and the more he saw of their methods, the more he felt disillusioned with his dream of communism. Reading his report, it is easy to believe that Handbook, with all its lack of action and its glossy evidence of a ghostwriter's assistance, is the work of a man who knows what he is talking about...