Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valiant and a larger black car. If Kennedy's car went over the bridge when he said that it did, then the white Valiant would have been the only car that the men could have used. Look maintains that it was not by any means the Valiant he saw at 12:40. "I know black from white," he said indignantly...
...scientific techniques improved, astronomers saw enough to become increasingly convinced that most planets were inhospitable to life. Yet Mars continued to provoke serious speculation, largely because it showed so many characteristics that seemed fascinatingly similar to those of earth. The red planet turned out to have an atmosphere, albeit an extremely thin one. The tilt of its axis (about 24°) is approximately the same as the earth's, thus creating seasonal changes. Its huge white polar caps suggest the presence of ice, and therefore water-a prerequisite for life as human beings know it. It also has large...
...ended," Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser said last week. "The Two, Three-or even Four-Year War is still continuing. We are at war with Israel." With those belligerent words, spoken in a week that saw ground and air action along the Suez Canal reach new intensity, Nasser effectively scrapped the U.N. Security Council cease-fire of 1967. Had the point of all-out war been reached? Not quite. Despite all the shooting-and the shouting-casualties were minimal in comparison with those suffered during the June 1967 hostilities. But the prospects for peace remained dim. All the efforts...
...Curia was quick to strike back. Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, 85, dean of the college of cardinals, wrote a letter to Suenens reportedly charging that his public statements were defamatory and slanderous. Tisserant demanded a retraction. Suenens answered that such an accusation was "unacceptable" and said he saw "no cause for retraction...
...those pushing for rent control. A poster pictured the hands of nine city councillors: the hands of the four councillors who voted for the housing convention's rent control ordinance are clean; those of the five opposed are splattered with blood. As housing convention vice-chairman Bill Joyce saw it, the four backed "the little people of Cambridge," while the five voted for "rent gougers, speculators, banks and Harvard and M.I.T...