Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vegetable but lacking cash (so they cannily said), the villagers threatened to pay their taxes in potatoes. Indignantly the local government posted notices that it would not receive potatoes. Sniffing a story, a newspaperman nosed in from nearby Limoges. As he stopped to photograph the potato notices he saw another poster: "Workers Wanted for the Uranium Fields...
...group of paintings shown in Toledo is substantially reduced from the one Washington saw. Of the 202 pictures shipped to the U.S. after Third Army troops discovered them in a Merkers (Germany) salt mine in 1945, some 100 of the more fragile ones have already been returned. Nonetheless, the collection is still imposing, includes ten Rembrandts (one of them The Man with the Golden Helmet), two Rubenses and two Botticellis...
...sunny day last week, President Truman lolled on a Key West beach, chatting with Chief Justice Fred Vinson. A Navy blimp buzzed in low. Looking up, Harry Truman saw five White House press photographers taking pictures. He gave them a big wave and a grin...
...reporter because he thinks lay publicity unethical, the Journal-American gave him special treatment. The story also appeared as an eight-column box on Page One in Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner. But neither Hearst-paper said anything about what every doctor (and several reporters) realized when they saw the film. The photographed hearts were the hearts of animals. To make the films, Dr. Prinzmetal and fellow researchers at Los Angeles Cedars of Lebanon Hospital had experimented on 65 dogs. Rabid old antivivisectionist Hearst was being kept alive by one of the nation's most eminent vivisectionists...
...Pernicious" School. Ordained in 1940, after a shortened course of studies, Father Herrera was appointed assistant pastor in one of the poorest sections of Santander. Here Don Angel, as his parishioners called him, saw at once how desperately Spain needed a socially conscious clergy. But though he did not fear to tread on this dangerous ground, Don Angel knew too much to rush in. Instead, he formed a small club called the Casa Sacerdotal. Priests came to the club, ostensibly to prepare their Sunday sermons. Actually they discussed world problems in terms of the most advanced Catholic social thinking...