Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without giving any specific details, Oliver said the observers' desire to return to N.S.A. is based on what they saw at this summer's convention...
...Give Him a Welcome." In their discussion of U.S.-Soviet problems, Stevenson thought he detected a softening of the Russian position. "Maybe it's not so much a matter of 'give,' " he said, "as of education." Khrushchev himself "has changed a little since I saw him last summer. I feel better about him now." Such informed talk could not help enhancing Stevenson's stature as an authority on foreign relations-a reputation every candidate in the 1960 race eagerly seeks...
...came up fast. By 1930 he had become Al Capone's East Coast viceroy, specialized in laundry, loan-shark and slot-machine rackets, as well as rumrunning. He knew every hood worth knowing, was also friendly with the late Mayor Jimmy Walker (in Prohibition days, Pisano saw to it that the Tammany Hall wigwams were plentifully supplied with needled beer and hijacked hooch). But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger man. In 1957, he and Frank Costello had a couple of friendly drinks together at the Waldorf just eleven hours before a bullet parted Costello...
...previously beat two Turks) and I could hear him screaming . . . When he came out his feet were so swollen that he couldn't get [them] in his shoes and could just about walk. His handkerchief was bloody and he was crying . . . McCuistion was beaten in the morning. I saw him about six . . . They then separated us and I didn't see him any more until 1100 hours. His shirt was torn, no glasses on, blood and scratches on his face and red bruises all over his body. He was also crying and saying: 'They're going...
...Roman Catholic Church's vast temporal powers. Not destroyed was a great religious hunger. Last week in Honduras, a Liberal President, Ramón Villeda Morales, was treating the republic to the greatest wave of Catholic revivalism that the tiny, primitive country (pop. 1,800,000) ever saw...