Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took off for a tour of the world's capitals, shopping for new ideas. The tour became a triumphal procession and a tonic for the dispirited President of a mismanaged nation. He arrived in the U.S. quoting Abraham Lincoln, got a ticker-tape welcome in New York City, saw Hollywood (he was disappointed to miss Ava Gardner, who was off in Spain), made an address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. He told the Congressmen that "we of Indonesia are in the stage of national turmoil through which America passed some 150 years...
Yale has come along with a rush after a dreadful start this season, which saw it lose five of its first six matches. But its 20-8 loss to Brown marked the turning point, as Yale went on to crush Columbia, 21 to 3, tie Penn, and defeat Princeton...
...state schools, children are taught the strict discipline of Soviet life. Mrs. Roosevelt said she saw children under a year old doing memorized exercises. Four-year-olds went through group exercise routines "without a word being spoken...
...rich, not from his plays and histories but because he was a shrewd investor who "would rise from a sick-bed and travel across France, if he saw a good profit to be made." Château Cirey in Champagne was tumbledown; to restore it, Voltaire put his credit at the disposal of Emilie's husband-who, in turn, put his wife and Château at the disposal of Voltaire. History does not show a more foursquare example of the eternal triangle...
...Serge would continue as he sat with the kids in their warp-walled house in New Orleans) Dennis saw a girl sitting in the parlor of a neighbor, so beautiful that he loved her right off. Even when Florabelle looked him full in the face and he saw that she only had one good eye, he didn't mind. He lifted her in his arms and put her in his buggy and drove her out for a ride. Parked out beside Lake Pontchartrain, he asked her to marry him. She winced; then, without saying anything, she threw aside...