Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Churchill battled Herbert Morrison over a relatively unimportant issue (whether or not Laborite William Whiteley should be elected to an Assembly vice presidency), the world saw an important spectacle: the political tussles of something very like an international parliament. In the corridor outside the assembly hall, in plain view of all Europe, Churchill grabbed the lapels of Liberal Lord Layton, whom he backed against Whiteley. "If you rat on me now in spite of our 40 years' friendship," hissed Churchill, "I will never speak to you again." Tory delegates patrolled the corridors, lobbying for Layton. Two Danes asked...
Supplies to the guerrillas from Tito's Yugoslavia had ceased completely, but Albania was still sending a steady stream of canned beef, jam, sugar, macaroni, guns & ammunition to the Communists' mountain positions. A U.S. officer inspecting the government's crack 9th Division in the Grammos sector saw heavy artillery fire directed against Greek forces from Albanian territory; a Dutch U.N. observer sitting on an upturned ammunition case neatly noted the positions of Communist guns in Albania. The Tirana radio last week charged that Greek government troops had invaded Albanian territory...
Cubans quickly saw that the bankers had made Prío's point for him. Nobody could seriously argue any longer that an ambitious public-works program could be financed as well in the Cuban money market...
...darkness around him, Strindberg saw only enemies, including his own wife, whom he suspected of deceiving him and being a Lesbian. Insanely jealous, he came to believe that Siri's children were not his (a suspicion he dramatized in his play, The Father). For a while Siri and August lived in a filthy old castle near Copenhagen, together with a mad Countess who played the hurdy-gurdy, a gypsy steward who practiced hypnotism, and a pack of wild dogs...
Furrowed Brow. In St. Louis, one week after a tavern brawl, Weslie Brent developed a headache, saw a doctor who found a .32 slug lodged between his scalp and skull...