Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Look Ahead. Though the Radical Party issued a warning to the nation that Peronistas were seeking to concentrate "all political, economic and cultural powers" under one "official party and its chief," the warning reached few Argentines. The government controlled press and radio saw to that...
From the Pierre, the A.P.'s Vincent O'Mahoney saw the photographers come to life. He dashed out, with the Daily News's Frank Ross and the Daily Mirror's Ara Piastre at his heels. While they stared at the crumpled figure in the courtyard, Russian-speaking Reporter Piastre (daughter of Conductor Mishel Piastre) heard her moaning "Ostavte! Ostavte!" (Later, only the Herald Tribune went out of its way to credit Miss Piastro with the translation: "Leave me alone...
Three hours and ten minutes after Schoolteacher Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina plunged from the Soviet consulate in Manhattan last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), television station WPIX was on the air with a newsreel of the shocking incident. Thousands of televiewers saw Mrs. Kosenkina lying against an iron grille door in the consulate's paved backyard. They saw consulate staff members push at the heavy door (rolling the broken-boned woman roughly on her side) and in a clumsy panic, try to lift her. They saw two New York policemen, who had scaled the high iron fence around the courtyard, crowd...
...Palace's S.R.O. audience stormily approved every bit of it. Sighed Carlton Emmy, maestro of the dog act: "It was like coming back to the old homestead . . ." Veteran Pat Rooney, who started in vaudeville back in 1890, said: "When I saw that audience I got that old feeling. Sure, television will bring back vaudeville. Vaudeville's never died." But it had changed a lot. Said Gus Van: "Years ago, you used to sit for an hour in the theater and make yourself up. Now a fellow with nice soft hands comes along and does it for you." Ella...
...camera was behind the driver's seat, as the car moved down Ann Arbor's Monroe Street, sideswiping a pedestrian who stepped out from behind a parked car. The other shots showed what witnesses would have seen from the sidewalks. For the trial, the driver and witnesses saw only the sequences that applied to them. The student lawyers had to prepare their briefs without seeing the movies...