Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen minutes later Howard Hughes eased himself through a packed aisle. There was scattered applause and, like a seasoned jnovie star, he turned to nod to the spectators. They saw a lank, dark-mustached man in a rumpled, ill-fitting grey suit, his scrawny neck sticking out of a too-large collar. He did not look like a formidable adversary for Maine's portly, assured Owen Brewster. It was because of Senator Brewster, the chairman of the committee, that Howard Hughes was there. For two weeks they had shot at each other in the newspapers. Now their duel...
...janitors moved in to sweep up, 41-year-old Howard Robard Hughes fired a parting blast: "When Senator Brewster saw he was fighting a losing battle against public opinion, he folded up and took a run-out powder . . . headed for the backwoods of Maine. There was no reason for the other Senators ... to continue his losing battle ... if he was too cowardly to stay here and face the music...
...final word on the question to which Walker saw fit to devote two thirds of his letter: was the demonstration Communist? Certainly there were Communists among the demonstrators. So what? Is it surprising that the Communists, who are always the first, but by no means the only victims of fascism and who have always taken pride in their militant anti-fascism should participate in a demonstration against a fascist like Gerald L. K. Smith? It is alarming, as well as more than a little revolting, to see Harvard students diverted from the real issue at hand by the game which...
...TIME's questions on the state of U.S. writing (see above) were interviewed by correspondents. Ernest Hemingway answered his questions by mail. He requested that both TIME's questions & his answers be published "since this has to do with my trade. You can say that when you saw me I was unshaven, needed a haircut, was barefoot, wearing a pyjama bottom and no top." The questions, and his replies...
...York Post's Columnist F.P.A. thought he saw an omen in Harry Truman's nostalgia for the Senate. "Lord!" wrote Adams. "After J. Q. Adams had been President he became a representative from Massachusetts." For omen-sighters there was a better precedent. Like Harry Truman, Andrew Johnson was a Senator before death made him President; six years after he left the White House he was again elected a Senator (from Tennessee...