Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco's Golden Gate. The luridly revealed racial complexities of the territory became the subject of scandalized interest on the mainland, and touched off a deep national uneasiness. In the hysteria, fanned by U.S. editors playing up a gaudy story, and by the U.S. Navy, which saw its gold-buttoned dignity assailed, some U.S. newspapers even tacitly condoned the lynching of Joe Kahaha...
...Gloom. The threat of Bridges' union, locally run by a well-trained leftist named Jack Hall, was certainly there, however. And although the Japanese laborers showed little evidence of revolutionary zeal, many businessmen thought they saw more than the threat of a strike; they saw Communism stalking the cane-brakes and the pineapple fields...
...standing in the crowd on the steps of a building, just watching-not in any official capacity, and unrecognized. But one partisan saw me, rushed out of line and up the steps to greet me. A little seven-year-old girl watched wide-eyed and decided that this was an important occasion that demanded formality. So she drew herself up very straight and gave me and the partisans a perfect Fascist salute...
...Whiskers. He saw, sure enough, that Big Joe had trouble defending against one punch: a counter-right after leading with his left. As a sparring partner of Joe Louis' eleven years ago, he had used that punch to put Big Joe on the floor one day. (Louis doesn't remember ever having been floored in training. Says Walcott: "I knocked Joe down in the very first round with a right hand punch that landed on the whiskers. They paid me $25 and hustled me out of camp for saying that Louis couldn't savvy my style. That...
...most of the year's non-fiction was written by men stranded on shallow isles of postwar political journalism-and how often and how quickly the fleets of history passed them by! Others, more aware of present dilemmas tried to find answers in the American past. The year saw an extraordinary number of new books on American history, some of them solid scholarly achievements...