Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left the South answering a newsman's question with one last provocative statement: state laws should be amended, he said, to permit intermarriage between whites and Negroes. Although his campaign in the South had been more incendiary than heroic, his followers thought they knew a symbol when they saw one. To them Henry Wallace symbolized the fight against those things which were wrong with the U.S.: prejudice, intolerance, economic maladjustment...
...saw, he said, "a young college student-a Progressive Party worker-who was severely cut across the back and arms by the agents of hate." He had heard it said in the South: "Down here to believe in the Constitution means you are automatically called a Communist...
...Balkans are seething with the battle between Ana and the "nationalists." A Rumanian who lives in a town near the frontier told an American: "This is the damndest clearing station you ever saw. Every night it's full of anti-Pauker Communists escaping into Yugoslavia and anti-Tito Communists running the other direction into Rumania...
Ireland's finest silver fir still stands (thanks to the fact that a contractor's saw was once too small to fit its girth)-in Parnell's old garden at Avondale at Wicklow. But in the rest of Eire, trees are grown on only 1.6% of the land. Eire is, indeed, the most treeless country of Europe. Why? To a Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech...
Radio as a cultural phenomenon impressed Oxford Historian E. L. Woodward because "for the first time a single voice can address the whole world." In praise of BBC, Woodward says that the British "at once saw the control of broadcasting as one of the problems of liberty. They treated this new source of power over men as they had treated in the past the power of kings and magnates . . . Considered politically, the arrangements governing the BBC and its broadcasts follow the same lines of thought as the order and rules under which the House of Commons has protected the freedom...