Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown rallied desperately midway through the period when Walt Pastusac heaved a 30 yard aerial from the fifth that Bill Altieri carried over for a touchdown. The Cubs missed the kick and never saw the end zone again...
...comparative freedom-and did so. He visited markets (where potatoes were selling for 56 cents a pound) and department stores (where "a pair of shoes was priced at $125"), dropped in on a musicale which turned out to be Dmitri Shostakovich at the piano with his own string quartet, saw a "three-dimensional" movie of Robinson Crusoe, prowled side streets and alleyways...
...generally agreed that there should be a separate body set up to administer the European Recovery Program. Three different groups had plans for such a body: the State Department, the Herter Committee, the Harriman Committee. On basic principles, they saw eye to eye. The boss should be appointed by the President, subject to Senate confirmation. The administering body should have wide and flexible authority to procure goods and facilities, administer and allocate funds. It should work in close cooperation with the State Department. It should make frequent and complete reports to Congress. Appropriations should be. on an annual basis...
...morning, Sayde's maid answered the doorbell, saw two characters with stockings pulled over their faces. "This is a nice way to enter a person's home," Sayde observed. She was understating it. One of the men clubbed her on the head and face with the flat of a gun. "Where's the big ring?" the gunman wanted to know. She said the store...
...extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they saw...