Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spanish cultural counselor in Washington, who speaks fine Oxford English. They were banqueted and shown through factories; they went shopping, and saw a bullfight...
Congressmen Murphy set the week's high mark in sightseeing-he saw the Falange headquarters and General Francisco Franco. Nattily togged out in a grey nylon shirt and grey suit, Murphy arrived at the guarded gate of El Pardo in a yellow government car, and was welcomed by the Caudillo in a blue civilian suit...
...from the wind. I read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
...pretty but strangely light, as though the image had been painted in watercolors instead of oils. Color-TV for the British public seems at least ten years off, but the manufacturers, Pye Ltd., were trying to sell closed-circuit installations to department stores, hospitals, universities. A Pye official even saw an atomic future for color-TV: "In industrial process, the watching of color changes at different parts of the reaction is of prime importance," he said. "With color-TV, the controller can see all that is scanned by the camera without endangering himself...
...about their quarry except that she was an assistant professor of history. But she sounded promising-she was a Wellesley alumna ('30) of a suitable age (38), and she had recently won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography entitled Forgotten First Citizen-John Bigelow* What the ladies saw that day was nonetheless a surprise...