Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington's George Marshall, vacationing in Sun Valley, Idaho, saw brief action in the daily softball game. Getting a good grip on his lip (see cut), he took his cut from an open southpaw stance, grounded out to the pitcher in the first inning, then sat out the rest of the game...
...Epsom Downs, for the second straight year, a French horse won the English Derby, the race that Britons cherish above all others. One of the largest crowds in racing history (an estimated 700,000 people*), saw My Love carry home the chocolate & chartreuse silks of the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of millions of Ismailite Moslems, ahead of the largest Derby field (32) in 86 years. Bubbled the fabulously rich, rotund Aga Khan, who had bought a half-interest in the horse only a few weeks ago: "I am delighted." Said one Frenchman, who came over for the race by boat...
...Jesus saw a lot of good in this world, and He didn't like the way it was being pushed around; somebody had to take the rap, and He took...
Last week Ethel was back at Cross's side; when she first saw him she was so hysterical with joy it took half an hour to get her harness on. She had been fitted with modified welder's goggles (see cut). In a month Dr. Blasdel will check her eyes to see if she needs different lenses. Dr. Blasdel could do nothing for her master. Cross, now 30, lost his sight in an accident when he was 14; the optic nerve has atrophied...
...public doesn't come in, according to an old Wall Street saw, "until its avarice grows stronger than its fear." Even though the U.S. economy is bigger and richer than ever before, the investing-speculating public is dogged by fears of international crises, labor-management strife and lower profits...