Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Borah never "filibusters," hates the term and practice. This has not prevented him from talking extensively, day after day, on the same subject, if he saw fit. To kill time, filibusterers read cookbooks, tracts into the Congressional Record...
...duration. Two U. S. aviators disputed priority in enlisting with French forces: Clifford H. de Roode, former pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, now attached to the First Regiment of Foreign Infantry; and Steele Powers, a 27-year-old Atlanta, Ga. boy, who was accepted immediately, sent to the front, saw action within two weeks...
...heroism, as always, and panic, as always; there was a man who stole a Minneapolis girl's flashlight and a few members of the crew who crowded into lifeboats; there was an eleven-year-old boy who heard his small brother cry, "Jump, Mother, jump!" and then saw him disappear forever; there was a Houston girl who, tossed into the water, saw a man beside her "just gasp and die"; there was a baby carried down the gangplank wrapped in a seaman's green-&-white-striped jersey; there was John Hayworth of Hamilton, Ont., father of ten-year...
...Fitz's secretary, Edward Moore. Eddie Moore, Irish as a clay pipe, was the first member of the family Kennedy founded, nurse, comforter, friend, stooge, package-bearer, adviser, who played games with Joe and the children, bought neckties and bonds for Joe, opened doors, wrote letters, investigated investments, saw to it Joe wore his rubbers...
...speakers were using a unified language, it was so technical that newshawks tore their hair trying to get plain-talk stories out of the meeting. One reporter sourly observed that the only semblance of unity he saw was a gathering of the delegates around a radio to hear war bulletins...