Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill, equipped with an imposing pair of binoculars, took in the races at Windsor, saw his grey colt Colonist II win its second race in two starts...
Howard B. Unruh saw a good bit of combat as a tank gunner in Italy and France. But unlike most front-line soldiers he never smoked, swore or chased girls. He drank a little kümmel, but only as an experiment. He was a slender, shy, high-domed youth with dark hair, pallid skin, thick lips and sunken cheeks...
After that, for nightmarish minutes, he stalked the street like a murderous mechanical man. He shot at passing motorists, killed three people, wounded two more. He saw a two-year-old boy in a window, aimed, fired, killed...
...bigwigs, the current Tailor & Cutter is driven to the inescapable conclusion that "fashion in Russia died with the aristocrats. The class having been so successfully destroyed, it was natural that all its facets should disappear. And so the Soviet leaders cling grimly to the clothes of the period that saw the birth of their administration...
Personally, said an elegant young London editor last week, "we feel that the greatest possible service to world peace would be the exporting to the Soviet Union of large quantities of American drape shapes, with a stock of the strange ties from Charing Cross Road. Once Russia saw its population trotting about in these ridiculous costumes, its sense of humor would be restored, and the sartorially resplendent nations of East & West would stroll hand in hand into the garmental adventure of the future...