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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to toss a Taft-Hartley injunction at the 480,000 United Mine Workers. John Lewis, it was true, had merely suspended his coal strike and was threatening to start it again Dec. 1. But there was no national emergency yet, at least as the President saw it. If one materialized, the Taft-Hartley Act would be trundled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Reprieve | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

John R. Marsh, her husband, told how a careering car ran her down as they were crossing Peachtree Street on the night of August II. "That is something I saw and I am afraid I will see the rest of my life," he said in a low voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Memories of Peachtree Street | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...said the starling, 'you sing aswell as a nightingale. But I must confess to you that our hearts were troubled when, as you sang, we saw your sting. We enjoyed hearing you sing, but please, please, sing a little farther away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Battle of the Fables | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Rubbed Noses. Both Editor Evjue and Rebel Parker saw eye to eye on one thing. They had no use for Wisconsin's 40-year-old Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, an ex-Marine tailgunner who, in 1946, had defeated Evjue's good friend, Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. In 1947 Parker dug up, and Evjue delightedly splashed across his front page, the fact that McCarthy had been compelled to fork over some $3,500 in back income taxes on stock-market profits when the Treasury disallowed some of his deductions. Last week, it was Senator McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mud for Muckrakers | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...deep sexual struggle for domination-malignly and methodically drives him insane. Her final ruse is to obsess him with the idea that he is not the father of their child. Strindberg is himself obsessed here, seeing all villainy in the world's wives, as the mad Lear saw it in the world's daughters. But if an unbalanced man, Strindberg was a far from impotent artist: he punctuated the play with flashes of insight and jabs of feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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