Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holy Father (Pope Pius XII had the gardens cleared before he entered them). Everyone was growing accustomed to the surprising sound of papal laughter ("Pius XII had a very gentle sense of humor," said one of the late Pope's closest advisers. "For 20 years I never saw him laugh"). John XXIII is not averse to starting laughter at his own expense. While speaking to a delegation of some 10,000 Venetians who came to Rome to see him crowned, he switched to Venetian dialect, broke into their appreciative applause with the words: "If you start that kind...
...that in the excitement of the past week "it has been hard to get to sleep, so I've been reading the newspapers, not out of vanity but simply out of curiosity. I noted the vigor with which you have pursued the secrets of the conclave, but I saw scarcely two accounts that were correct. Your strength was formidable, but the silence [of the conclave] has been even stronger...
...samples the food, checks the service, asks questions-all the while jotting notes on pieces of scrap paper. A rough and tough man's man, he often peppers his speech with four-letter words, can shoot out orders like a gunslinger on the loose. Recently he saw an American Airlines sign on a road leading to Detroit's Metropolitan airport, snapped: "Who the hell put that up?" He had noticed that the hand of the stewardess in the sign was grotesquely large. It was quickly changed. I n a corporate world often dominated by slow-moving boards...
...never let himself get sloppy, was unafraid to take a gamble to put American out ahead. For example, while most other airlines were shunning New York's newly built La Guardia field in 1938 because they did not want the bother and expense of moving from Newark, Smith saw that the shift closer to Manhattan would improve service, switched American's New York base to La Guardia. New York City was so glad to get American that the gamble paid off. Smith got a rock-bottom rental, and the other airlines were eventually forced to follow...
After a week of scrimmages--the first since the beginning of the season--the Yardlings proved that they were as good as early season form had indicated as they dominated every offensive department. The team outgained Brown, 490 yards to 207 yards, and every Crimson player saw action in the contest...