Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing to say about a communication he had had from Chiang Kaishek. All but about $13 million of the $125 million Congress had appropriated for Chinese military aid had been spent, he said. He saw no point in calling a session of the "do-nothing" 80th Congress to act in the emergency...
...Service. Forrestal and Major General Alfred M. Gruenther, who is attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and who had flown down with him, had a word in private with the President afterwards. Photographers who were allowed to snap the scene from a distance of 25 ft. saw Mr. Truman chopping the air with his hands as he talked. Forrestal, it was announced later, had simply reported on a recent six-day trip he had taken to Europe. The interview lasted a scant 45 minutes and Forrestal flew home again...
...days later the sergeant's general sent him across a bullet-swept street in Torreón for a canteen of cognac. Adelita saw...
Official closing of the Red Feather Drive at Harvard and the Boston area Wednesday night saw contributions fall short of the set goals for both areas. Boston contributors poured $6,125,522 or 88.1% of the $6,950,000 goal into the fund while the College achieved $36,000 or 90% of its $40,000 mark. Figures for the Boston area were announced shortly after the close of the drive by campaign manager Powell M. Cabot...
...Heartbreak House" was written during the first World War when Shaw was in a particularly pessimistic frame of mind and admittedly inspired by Chekov's "The Cherry Orchard." Heartbreak House is built in the likeness of a ship and the ship is England, which Shaw saw as headed for the rocks. In "The Cherry Orchard" there is the hope that when the forest is cleared there will be a better world. There isn't this hope in "Heartbreak House." It ends with its people realizing themselves and crying out for annihilation. The meaning of this conclusion is not clear...