Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she saw what she had done...
...Marxism's annual spring rites would seem slightly out of place in Paris, where the Communists were in lonesome and (temporarily) confused opposition. And in Italy, where Communism had come so close to achieving its greatest triumph since the Russian revolution, May Day saw Communism clearly rebuffed by the Italian people...
Missing: $39.60 belonging to Clarissa Churchill, Winston's niece, now visiting Manhattan for the first time. Clarissa looked at the meter in a cab, saw the figure 40, handed $40 to the driver, who softly thanked her and quickly drove away...
...ceremonial speeches at medical conventions are usually sugared pills of platitudes. But in San Francisco last week, at the 29th annual meeting of the American College of Physicians, it was different. Doctors took a sharp look at themselves and disapproved of some things they saw...
...Domville. It seems to have been a fairly good play; in 1930 (35 years later), the London Times called it "that beautiful, harshly treated play . . ." The producer of Guy Domville was sanguine, though James, with his usual misgivings stayed away opening night. Instead, he went to the Haymarket and saw Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, which had just opened. James considered Wilde's play crude, bad, clumsy, feeble, vulgar-but it appeared to be a complete success-"and that gave me the most fearful apprehension...