Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic crossing by us frustrated airline bombardiers flying Boeing 314s and 314-As would have been strictly routine except for the ships at sea (preferably enemy) and our beloved flush toilets. Incidentally, these same ships are now being flown (by a new owner) over Crews's beloved state. Saw one anchored in Biscayne Bay yesterday...
...light of early morning, Train No. 4034, bound for Paris, swung round the long bend outside the rail junction of Trappes, near Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that...
...sued Sonia for divorce. The justice in the case, the Hon. Sir Hubert Wallington, saw no cause to doubt the Major's testimony that Sonia and Chisman had been in bed together. But, on Sonia's testimony that there had been no misconduct, he denied the divorce. After all, as he explained, "I have seen the wife and Chisman, and know their ages and antecedents. They have nothing in common except their mutual interest in horses...
...knew that he had to get rid of Velazco. Diplomatic observers saw it as the quid pro quo for Braden's resignation. Velazco represented the extreme anti-U.S. feeling in Argentina; his barb-tongued champions of "national dignity" continued to hack at Perón's new, conciliatory foreign policy...
...without cause, and committed suicide. Since she was getting nowhere with Heflin, Joan married Massey. His daughter, Geraldine Brooks, believing her late mother's fantasies about the treacherous nurse, hated Joan. And every time Heflin turned up, Joan got wobbly in her loveless marriage. Worse still, she saw an affair ripening between Heflin and her stepdaughter...