Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surfaced, surprised and strangling, he gasped in the enormous drama of his new position. The ship, already out of earshot, went trudging remorselessly on her way. Inspired, Tomas Montanez did not even cry out. He saw a tern flying overhead and told himself, fiercely, that this meant good luck. He began to swim, and pray, and hoard his strength...
What they saw was far from spectacular. One small hose was introduced upon the scene, and with it and many axes, the smoke-eaters succeeded in removing the remains of a previously smouldering cigarette. Damages were slight...
Many an American during the war saw the game played by British teams overseas and admitted it was really something to watch "If you only know what in hell it was all about." When eight forwards from each team are clustered in a tight, throbbing circle, trying to heel out the ball to the backs behind them, rugby resembles neither football nor soccer, although the pigskin itself is a compromise between the two. Add to all this running, passing, tackling but no blocking, and toss-outs from the sidelines and you have that strange hodge-page of field sports which...
Three hundred fifty fans, most of them standees, saw the more exciting Block-house proceedings. At 121, Coombs took a default but lost to his overweight opponent by a 7 to 2 count in a subsequent exhibition bout. Brown won a default in the 128-pound class and a pin in the next weight. Then Ray took a 4 to 0 decision at 145, but Conant was pinned...
...marked "play as you will." In rehearsal, single measures in Ives's symphonic suite Three Places in New England had to be hashed over as many as ten times. One section has a trumpet blaring the melody of The British Grenadiers in march tempo, while the strings saw away on a waltz. Groaned Assistant Conductor Richard Burgin: "I give the time, but the musicians are not supposed to follow...