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Word: sawing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the American public was treated to a nice long look at the seamy side of our international politics. It was an excellent view, uneluttered by any of the ideological garbage currently in vogue. What they saw was Secretary of State Marshall and other prominent men stumbling all over themselves to get on the right side of Spain's midget despot, General Francisco Franco. The new love affair was concentrated power politics. Franco wanted readmission to the family of nations. He offered the United States access to the vital Spanish Peninsula and the use of his Moorish troops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friend Franco | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...kind of a guy who would gladly travel to the Opera House and pay the price of admission just to see Bobby Clark flick ashes in a poor play. Last night I did just that. I saw Mike Todd's latest, a trinket--it looks like about a third of a million dollars' worth of trinket--called "As the Girls Go." The show was lavish, polished, populated with every pretty girl this side of Billy Rose--and dull...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

Charles R. Brynteson '50, co-chairman of the Council Student Welfare Committee, said yesterday that police had passed the plan as far as fire safety was concerned. Engines can get through the street in the daytime when cars are parked there, so they saw no reason why they could not do so at night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All-Night Parking Plan Approved by Cambridge Police | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...that the boys are now trying to get Free Enterprise Societies set up in other colleges all over the country, and that once they've done that, they think maybe they'll organize the whole works into a unified movement--when all this came out, and when I saw the industry they were putting into the different projects, getting out booklets and newsletters and so on, I began to view with alarm a little. Not that they can do any harm by themselves. But when you get a large organization, full of pep and eager to do something with social...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...Here he comes again!" Children who had been playing down the street raised the cry. "Here he comes again!" The Russian lieutenant reappeared. He saw the Americans gathered near his motorcycle, and slipped back out of sight. One block away, in a tree-lined sidestreet, Morrow caught up with him. The lieutenant was now accompanied by a Russian private, whose Tommy gun he carried. Morrow said (in Polish, which the Russian understood): "I am unarmed. I want to find out what's happening here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Incident at the Widow Lehrte's | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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