Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contemporary Russian inventors were not idle. Last week, Tass reported that they had developed a new artificial arm with which disabled veterans could "write, saw and chop wood, strike matches, and operate a machine...
...Alexander Farran had often been close to death. The son of an Irishman who had served in India. he went to Sandhurst and became one of the heroes of World War II. He fought with Wavell in the desert, went along on the ill-fated British expedition in Greece, saw his comrades blown to bits, was wounded and captured by the Germans. Clad in a pair of blue pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked him up. He got back...
...took the parcel and carried it into the living room. It was addressed to Roy, but he opened it. It contained a volume of Shakespeare. Rex probably never saw it, for it exploded as he undid it, tearing open his stomach and maiming his hands. As Rex lay dying in the hospital later, he asked: "Am I dying like a Farran?" His last words were: "No revenge...
Mexico's Master. Lorencez saw nothing but ragged Mexican, scouts ducking over the brown hills ahead. "We are so superior to the Mexicans in race, in organization, in discipline, in morality, and in elevation of feeling," he wrote the French War Minister, "that I beg Your Excellency to be so good as to inform the Emperor that, at the head of 6,000 soldiers, I am already master of Mexico...
...mustn't think of these people," said General Ike Eisenhower last week, "as just some sort of unfortunates . . . They are not-they are one of you. I saw a major general, one of the finest athletes of his time, definitely break-break because he could no longer sustain the agonies of combat. He could not talk to me without shaking, and he had to go home. This cannot be dismissed as not touching you personally...