Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon showed a faint tip over the saw-toothed mountains that circle the walled Korean capital, feeble lights went on in Seoul's tiny, one-room houses. White-coated Koreans gathered in little groups on street corners or hurried home to join curious family circles, and there was an unaccustomed murmur in the air. All through the city rustled the same earnest talk and in all the talk there was the one phrase "sin tak"-trusteeship...
Time for Talk. Afterwards, the two presidents crossed the river into Brazilian Uruguayana. At an old-fashioned residence of a Brazilian colonel, they withdrew with five top advisers for 2¼ hours' talk. Reporters who peeked around a curtain saw a cozy semicircle. Perón dominated the talk. Dutra, quiet by nature, weary and weighed down with Communist troubles at home (TIME, May 26), did little but listen. Besides, he still had to go 75 miles to Quarahy, for a second border meeting the next day with Uruguay's President Tomás Berreta...
...Nicolas. Nicolas de Flue made no compromises with unrighteousness. He started out as a soldier, but quit when Swiss troops burned a convent in which the enemy had taken refuge. He became a judge, but quit again when he saw an innocent poor man, accused by a rich man, convicted. He became a peasant, working his farm to support his wife and ten children. But again, the call of God was too strong. He left his family and retired to a ravine, where for 20 years, it is said, he ate only the Sacrament and drank nothing...
More than two-thirds of the low income group thought testimonials were a racket. Executives, who possibly saw themselves as potential "men of distinction," were less mistrustful. Most radio commercials, said 57%, were a waste of time. Remarked the committee, in a vast understatement: "Unless some action is taken, consumer opinion of radio commercials is likely to get worse instead of better...
Higher. The Packard Motor Car Co. boosted auto prices from $75 to $224 a car. Reason: pinched by material shortages, Packard lost $1,148,172 during the first quarter of the year, saw no hope of increasing production enough in the near future to put it into the black without a price rise...