Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dishwasher named José Nozario said that one day before the election he and other kitchen help were summoned upstairs for drinks, cigarettes and neckties-just like Sherm's customers. Said José: "I sat entranced. I never saw anything so pretty." Sherm advised them to vote against the union. They did. The day after the election, he gave them $100 apiece, and $500 to the head pot-wrestler...
...temple to temple and cheekbone to cheekbone. Four years ago, the Japanese had massacred the bearers of these heads; the Chinese government had simply placed the skulls (and neatly heaped bones) on a hill so that all the living might see what war meant. Last fortnight people outside Hunan saw this war memorial...
Even an ostensibly harmless action like the choice of Beirut, Lebanon, for next year's UNESCO conference, was an occasion of friction. Polish Delegate Jan Drohojowski, who had walked in & out of the conference in a constant huff, saw a last-minute chance for what he considered a crack at the U.S. He said he hoped that next year the delegates, "especially when they visit the neighboring Holy Land, will obey the Ten Commandments and not bow down to the Golden Calf...
...France had beaten the "Cocos." One night in Paris, where electric current was on again, two powerful searchlights made a giant V in the sky. Actually this show was for the late wartime hero, General Jacques Leclerc (TIME, Dec. 8), whose body lay in Notre Dame. But many Parisians saw it as a symbol of triumph over a newer enemy...
...Hitler's Panzer divisions began their drive toward France-from the cloudless sky over ancient Freiburg a thin drone insisted. The burghers were not alarmed. They glanced skyward, expecting to watch another Luftwaffe observation plane drift toward the French border ten miles to the west. Instead, they saw a formation of planes, sweeping in at great altitude from the north. Seconds later, the burghers and their women and children ran for cover, shrieking. Terror bombing of undefended cities on the western front had begun...