Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What I saw was the bristling little dictatorship of Generalissimo Trujillo. The Dominicans brag that they have 25,000 men under arms, an air force of 50 jets, and a navy of 19 frigate-destroyer escort-type vessels, all highly efficient. The troops looked neat and tough. Drive west from the center of Ciudad Trujillo, and you come on huge fields with possibly 2,000 to 3,000 men drilling in squad-sized groups. These are the draftees, and their D.I.s strut and chant like U.S. marines, all very sharp. On the air route from the east, there...
Inevitably came the question about the Shah's widely publicized search for a new wife. Was it true he had as many as "three or four" matrimonial prospects in mind? The Shah managed a smile: "That's not many . . . Would you marry the first girl you saw...
Died. Whitley Charles Collins, 61, president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc.; of a circulatory ailment; in Los Angeles. A banker by training, Collins brought financial know-how to Northrop when he took over in 1954, in four years saw its sales rise from $171 million to $256 million...
...sure none of my friends in New York expected this when I left five years ago," he said last week in his still Manhattan-tinted accent as he puffed a Dunhill cigarette. But he saw nothing odd about an American occupying a bastion of Britain. Said Anglican Simpson: "The United States Government doesn't seem to mind if I pray for Queen Elizabeth...
...19th century's great year of revolutions, Milan staged its famed Five Days' revolt against the Austrian rulers of northern Italy. Stepping out into the clamorous street, Hussar Colonel Angelo Pardi, youthful hero of Jean Giono's new novel, suddenly saw his fellow patriots like actors on a stage-officers strutting by, each with "a finger to his mustache as if to the trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself...