Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collapsed into the streets, and over the flattened city fire crept steadily. People tossed bundles of bedding and clothes out of windows and doors. Men, women & children picked their way through the ruins of houses, keeping their faces turned always toward the fire, moving more quickly when they saw the nearness of its creeping advance and felt its hot wind...
...nothing left to say. While the House went on with its business, the Prime Minister sat at his desk, staring blankly at the rows of empty seats. After a giant yawn, just before the session's end, he got up and started out of the chamber. Members who saw him leaving thumped briefly on their desks. One member stood up and clapped. Old Mackenzie King waved a limp right hand, faded into the shadows behind the Speaker's throne...
...rainswept streets, the darkening alleys, the lonely deserted shops that had caught his eye. Next week 36 Lamotte illustrations will appear in a $12.50 Limited Editions volume of Nana; light of hand but heavy with atmosphere, they are enough to give anyone that last-time-I-saw-Paris feeling...
...first year (1921), he rode more winning mounts than any other jockey in Australia. Moving on to England, he dumfounded horseplayers by winning without using much whip. But bettors disliked him, because when the Crocodile saw he couldn't win a race, he often stopped trying. "If the owner wants me to place, I try, but I don't like to ride a horse into the ground for nothing." English fans nicknamed him "brigand"; in France, he is called voleur (thief) more often than le roi des jockeys...
...beginnings back in 1910, when missionaries of many non-Roman Catholic churches met in Edinburgh to discuss their common problems and the possibilities of cooperation. Among them was a U.S. Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent. In the midst of the proceedings, Bishop Brent suddenly saw things in a new perspective. "I learned that something was working that was not of man in that conference,'-' he said later. "The spirit of God . . . was preparing a new era in the history of Christianity." He set to work to persuade his fellow churchmen that they should consider what...