Word: sawing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fell on a heap of dirty snow. Passersby stopped, turned, and saw him then; a thin, black-haired man lying broken and dying. The curious gathered, and with them blue-overcoated policemen. Then an ambulance nosed...
Neighbors on their way home from church saw the tall, 56-year-old ex-Under Secretary of State, bareheaded and wearing a heavy fur coat, prostrate beside a lonesome road. His face had been scratched by briers, but there was no sign that he had been attacked. His clothes were frozen to his body; apparently he had fallen into a stream, stumbled out and collapsed a little distance beyond. He had lain there some eight hours before he was found...
...Welles's magnificent Oxon Hill estate, his valet reported that Welles had worked late that night in his study, and around midnight had told the valet to go to bed, that he was going for a short walk. That was the last any of the servants saw of their reserved, austere employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death...
...banged on George's front door and shouted: "George, it's me, John. Open the door, for Christ's sake!" John had been best man at George's wedding many years before. The voice sounded like his, so George opened the door slightly. Outside he saw several armed guerrillas. George fired twice at a man who tried to force his way in, slammed the door and bolted it, ran upstairs, grabbed a grenade and tossed it through the window down into the group at the door...
...famine seemed to assure endless prosperity. Many took delivery simply to resell-and then found that there was little or no profit to be had. At Edmonton fur auctions, ranch mink and ermine prices were down 35%. British Columbia lumbermen were cutting the price of lower grades, and they saw more cuts in prospect...