Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...originator of the New Deal was a liberal "in the sense that he saw changes was inevitable and that government and society had to be remade," Schlesinger continued. Yet his aims were essentially conservative; he wanted to maintain American traditions and ideals...
When all the Colaborer lands are plowed and planted, George Sutton wants to start other enterprises and funnel their proceeds to other missions deeper into the backlands. "I'm liable to do some Bible-pounding myself,'' he says, "and boy, they sure could use encouragement. I saw a lad here trying to read a Portuguese Bible-upside down. It's a shame, when you think of folks at home who know how to read but never even open the Bible...
...menacing practice of writing and warbling their own tunes. Paul Anka, 17, a Canadian boy with a voice like a grouse's cry and a compositional style to match, wrote and recorded (for ABC-Paramount) an amatory yawp of pain entitled So It's Goodbye, saw it become a favorite of the jukebox set. A carrot-haired New Jersey girl named Beverly Ross, 22, deserted the chicken farm where she grew up, traveled to Manhattan, made a hit record with her own song called Lollipop. Later, she moved Columbia's Mitch Miller to frenzies of promotional enthusiasm...
...Page 44 (The Four Lads; Columbia). An upbeat quartet is driven by the mail-order economy into a fine state of mail-order passion. "I'd like to get," carol the boys with a slogging beat, "a girl from Sears and Roebuck/ Like the one that I saw ... on Page...
...Then, suddenly, all the problems on her Road of Life were solved: a plane crash polished off the lamister. Mary Noble, that long-suffering Backstage Wife, realized at last that her husband was really in love with her. Nora Drake, psychiatric nurse, finally finished analyzing her boy friend and saw him head home to his ex-wife and family. All last week, soap operas were blowing their last bubbles on CBS; writers were winding up their plots, sending the venerable shows down the drain along with a clutch of other programs. Reason: CBS is trying to save what is left...