Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, many Americans saw and learned to play our game...
...McCloy's service in France during World War I was with the artillery of the 4th Regular Army Division, and it was during this service that he saw and was so deeply impressed with the beautiful city of Rothenburg. What McCloy did not know in April 1945 was that it was his same old outfit, by sheer coincidence, that was preparing to capture Rothenburg from the Germans-by destruction if necessary...
Majority Leader Lucas, who knew when he was licked, agreed to a vote on the Taft substitute and saw it pass by 49-44. Utah's stolid, scholarly Elbert Thomas, noting sadly that only the first two lines of his bill were left when Taft got through, disowned the whole business. At his suggestion the bill was renamed the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1949, but, as old Bill Green had indicated, it would be known familiarly as the Taft bill...
...other stumps were some of those almost forgotten records which FBI agents had turned up. Hiss had said firmly that the last time he saw Chambers was in "May or June of 1936." Against that statement were the Chamberses' recollections and two facts established some time ago but now assuming vital proportions...
...alluring? Ball estimated unproved reserves of the new Canadian fields at a whopping 20 billion barrels, contrasted to 5-15 billion barrels in Mexico. Furthermore, Ball saw the $200 million loan sought by Mexico as just a starter. Since Mexico had drilled an average of 35 wells annually in the last ten years, and "it might take 10,000 or more" to develop the fields fully, the eventual cost might run from $2 to $4 billion. The U.S. "cannot afford" to lend that much money, especially since chances are slim that Mexico's monopoly could...