Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murals of the Buddhas and their disciples, the foresighted brought along a few electric heating pads to sit on. One evening a fortnight ago, one of the artists forgot to flip the switch before he left. Next morning, a party of schoolchildren on their way to visit the shrine saw clouds of smoke billowing from the temple's gracefully curved old roof...
Last week Else and Irma were busy making Adelheide their home. They brought in evergreen branches to decorate their room. With a saw borrowed from the carpentry shop, they made little frames for the pictures of their relatives. Else could hardly get over their good fortune...
During the mile drive in his little car, they lost some of their shyness and began pelting him with excited questions. And as they rounded a curve and saw the red brick houses set in wide surrounding fields, one of them exclaimed: "Just think -a village...
Sherlock Doyle. In 1903, he was obliged to revive Sherlock Holmes-and the scenes at the railway bookstalls, says a contemporary, "were worse than anything I ever saw at a bargain sale." He demonstrated his own detective brilliance when a colored clergyman was sentenced to seven years in jail for a crime that Doyle was convinced he had never committed. Using Holmes's own methods, Doyle tracked down the real criminal and vindicated the imprisoned parson...
...week's end the Military Government slapped Editor Foss down. It apparently saw no reason for a free press in the "American tradition" in a country that had no such tradition and was not free. An investigation of Die Neue Zeitung's policies and staffers was ordered. General Clay, visiting in Frankfurt, was told that Foss had said the paper had been "too much of a lecturer with a raised forefinger," but was now to be regarded "as a forum." Snapped Clay: "It was never the former, and it is not going to be the latter." He ordered...