Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry S. Truman ... Or should the honor go to John Q. Citizen, who stumped the experts and confounded the pollsters and reasserted his sacred right to vote as he saw...
...August 1945, the now-merged coalition government at Warsaw was summoned by a phone call to Moscow. Stalin wanted even more Polish territory than the Curzon Line gave him. Molotov saw the Poles first. He tried to soothe them by saying they could send their shipping from the landlocked Polish port of Elbing through a channel that ran near Konigsberg into the Bay of Danzig. Then the party went to Stalin's office for his approval...
...purpose of Harkness' gift to Harvard seems to have been to spur Yale officials into seeing his point of view. He tacitly threatened them that he would continue to finance Harvard projects if they wouldn't accept his gift of the colleges. Apparently Yale official-dom saw the light, for Angell was soon expounding the college plan to alumni meetings. Shortly thereafter he announced the acceptance of Harkness' gift...
...second half was see-saw, scoreless football all the way, due mainly to the line work of Adams' Frank Holt and Bill Boucher...
Although it discarded the plan for an activities center attached to Memorial Hall, the board saw the need for it, O'Reilly said. "I feel certain," he stated, "that all the men gathered here today will contribute to an activities center . . . if that is what the Corporation thinks should be first on the University's building list...