Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This same prediction was first made by the President last March in speeches at the College and elsewhere. He said he saw no impending war with the Soviet Union, but forecast years of non-military conflict...
...what do you suppose the expunging process is? I have a theory. Late one night last spring, returning from Radcliffe, I saw a group of people bending over a bonfire in the Cambridge graveyard. They were throwing torn I.B.M. cards into the fire, and making weird sounds, and dancing a strange dance. Suddenly the wind fanned the flames, and the eerie light shone up into their faces. I recognized several deans and at least one House Secretary. I couldn't figure it out at the time, but looking back, I feel sure they were expunging some poor chap's name...
...most luxurious bordello which the U.S. ever saw was Chicago's Everleigh Club. It was run by the Virginia-born Everleigh sisters, Minna and Ada, two corseted women who insisted on being treated as gentlewomen at all times...
Power v. Style. The near-capacity crowd watching the semi-finals next day saw a study in contrasts. The first was a slugging match in which Gonzales and chunky, 26-year-old Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia slammed a total of 43 service aces at each other. Pancho wore him out in four sets, 8-10, 11-9, 6-0, 6-3. In the second match, it was style instead of power. Sturgess scored only two aces, Flam none. Time after time, Sturgess' deep forehand drives kicked up the chalk on Flam's baseline. When Flam moved...
...minute, they saw what they were waiting for: a substantial-looking citizen approached and murmured a few words to Baldy. The bookie's eyes flicked to the tote board, caught the changing odds on the day's featured race-the $25,000 Fall Highweight Handicap. Then Baldy winked. No money had changed hands, but the substantial citizen had just made a substantial-and illegal...