Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canton, he began preparing for his eventual return to Viet Nam. Nationalism, Ho saw, was the foundation on which an independent Viet Nam could be built. To this end, he began organizing young Vietnamese nationalists exiled in China, slowly building the organization that was to become his apparatus of power. In the process, he proved that he could be utterly cruel...
...Mafia. For example, four of his main witnesses have recently been convicted of crimes; in exchange for their testimony, Mosley has promised to recommend lighter sentences for them. Will the jury believe men with their records? One is a Mafia gunman who testifies that, from a hidden place, he saw Franzese's pals stab The Hawk several times in a parking lot. Remarking on the witness's matter-of-fact account, the defense asks the jury: "Did you ever in your life see a more cold, calculated killer...
...while making a sketch of the superstructure of an iron-ore mine, he learned that it would be torn down in a matter of days and hustled off to get a camera to photograph it. When he saw the prints, he decided that sketching was futile. "These things are so full of fantasy there is absolutely no sense in trying to paint them," he says. "I realized that no artist could have made them better." His wife Hilla, a trained studio photographer, acts as bag boy, lens handler, bookkeeper and darkroom technician. Together, they have dedicated themselves to recording what...
...they were cleaning up a mess. Such obtuseness in a man whose life is a record of devotion to decency in human life can be explained only as an aberration, perhaps a dramatist's occupational disability of putting his own words into the mouths of other characters. Lenin saw Shaw as "a good man fallen among Fabians." Shaw, perversely, seemed to regard dictators as good Fabians fallen among fanatics...
...patrons and editors, went as far as a vest-pocket biography, full of Shavian anecdotes that Shaw wrote in a parody of Harris' journalistic style and entitled "How Frank Ought to Have Done It." His unique stunt no doubt contributed to Harris' actual Shaw biography. But Shaw saw to it that his stories enhanced Shaw too, offering witty cracks about himself, which he attributed to his contemporaries. One was supposedly by Oscar Wilde: "He has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like him." Another was attributed to his platonic lover, Mrs. Pat Campbell...