Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hero who lectured throughout the land, wrote pamphlets on the Workers' Paradise. But in three years paradise had begun to look like a very different place. Wrote he: "I found just the conditions against which I was fighting over here . . . The workers were hungry ... in rags. I never saw the equal of that misery in this country...
...climax, then run backward to a close. 1914, even gave it a few licks while he was in the Austrian army. Its successful Berlin premiere in 1925 surprised Berg as much as anyone. He had expected to be booed; instead he got a dozen curtain calls. (The U.S. first saw Wozzeck in 1931; Manhattan audiences heard concert excerpts three times last season...
...Aide Frank Haskell, of the third day's fighting, "that at the second Bull Run, at the Antietam, and at Fredericksburg . . . we had heard heavy cannonading; they were but holiday salutes compared with this . . . great oaks heave down their massy branches ... as if the lightning smote them ... [I saw] a man bent up, with his face to the ground in the attitude of a Pagan worshipped . . . [and] I went and said to him, 'Do not lie there like a toad. Why not go to your regiment and be a man?' He turned up his face with...
...charge had failed and the most optimistic Southerner knew that the Confederates had lost the day, General Lee, "the saddest man in the Army of Northern Virginia," passed among his retreating, exhausted men, begging them to keep their ranks and assuring them: "It was my fault this time." He saw an aide lashing at a balky horse and begged: "Oh, don't do that. I once had a foolish horse and I found gentle measures so much the best." Sir Arthur Fremantle found Confederate General Longstreet sitting glumly on a fence and said tactlessly: "I wouldn't have...
...Tennis saw Kirkland take first place as Winthrop and Eliot tied for second in a double elimination tournament finished during Reading Period. Adams and Dunster split fourth place; Leverett took sixth, Lowell, seventh