Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olympic games in Berlin, a crowd of over 100,000 saw an exhibition game between two American teams...
...Communists had been. On the big compound of the Sunchon Agricultural and Forestry School we found what was left of the entire population of Sunchon. Women with babies on their backs watched without expression as their husbands and sons were beaten with clubs, rifle butts and steel helmets. They saw 22 of them marched away to the primary school nearby, and heard the volley of rifles which killed them...
...famed group finally been stunted by its arid totalitarian climate? Yes, thinks one of the few foreign observers competent to judge. Brooks Atkinson, the New York Times's drama critic and onetime Moscow correspondent, saw the Art Theater in 1923, 1935 and 1945-46. Atkinson believes that the clammy hand of bureaucracy has turned the Art Theater into something routine and mechanical. Says he: the great spirit that nurtured Gorky and Chekhov and inflamed theater-lovers the world over is gone...
When Lester Furnival saw her husband vanish into thin air before her eyes, she thought at first that he must be a ghost. Then she realized that she was one. For a while, Lester and her sniveling girl friend Evelyn (they had been killed by the same crashing plane) were lonely in the soundless, deserted London they haunted. But then they got involved with a gaunt, ascetic emissary of the Devil named Simon Leclerc (he was disguised as a popular religious leader and preached about Love...
Other election-day activities saw 28 foreign students tour polling places for a first-hand view of American democracy in action...