Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road to power he had made many enemies. His chief rival was dapper, wily ex-Premier U Saw. He had accused Aung San of being a British puppet, refused to sign the independence agreement in London because it might lead to dominion status instead of full independence for Burma. Last year gunmen fired three shots into U Saw's car; glass cut his face. He accused Aung San of planning the attack, and tightened the guard on his fortress-like house on a lake seven miles from Rangoon...
...Weeping People. The night after the Cabinet massacre, police raided that house. After a gun duel, U Saw and 19 followers surrendered. Police found a cache of arms, and a green jeep holding a Bren gun, a Sten gun, and a hand grenade. U Saw was taken under heavy guard to Rangoon's central prison...
...father tried to shelter Arthur, but the house on Clare Street was not safe enough. On New Year's Eve 1918, he left his father's house and took the mountain path up Aberdare. He walked all night and all day into the New Year till he saw the little mining town of Maerdy in the valley below. It was there that Arthur Horner's vindictive rise to power began...
Suddenly, looming out of the fog, her captain saw above him the huge bow of a freighter. His thin-skinned warship plunged headlong into the 10,000-ton Yarmouth County, outbound at a cautious eight knots. Fifty feet of the Micmac's port bow was peeled back like the lid of a sardine can. Jagged steel ripped through the arms and legs of seamen dozing on their mess deck. Crashing steel girders pinned others to the deck...
...Kamloops (now it's a 36-pounder). Then the rush began. Anglers converged on Pend Oreille, equipped with deep-sea tackle and high hopes. When the Kamloops bit, they bit hard. One man, rowing along the shore one morning with his rod draped over the stern, suddenly saw the rod fly up as if alive. He dropped his oars and dived for it, splitting his chin open on the boat's gunwale. The fish got away, taking rod & reel with...