Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the Duce's grandiose streets and squares. By 1937 Vaselli was known as the "garbage baron" and "asphalt king." And when typhus broke out again in Rome, Mussolini blamed him. After a vast check, Vaselli took Mussolini early one morning to a Roman creamery. There the Duce saw that the milkmaids, bent on beautifying their skins, were taking baths in the milk before it was bottled. The furious Duce rained blows on the girls' heads, ordered their boss dismissed, and personally overturned every milk can (Vaselli finally collected what he could of the spilled milk and sold...
...case was set by one Malkiel Gruenwald, an aging Hungarian Jew who saw 52 members of his family go to the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Safe in Israel after the war, Gruenwald brooded. Why had none of the 500,000 slaughtered Hungarian Jews had any warning of their fate? With warning, Jews in Poland had had a chance to die fighting, and some had succeeded in escaping. But Hungary's Jews had gone docilely to their deaths, innocently sure they were merely being sent to labor camps. Gruenwald pored through old records, questioned other survivors, four years ago published...
Home-Town Boys. The Kutis Funeral Home first became a soccer patron 15 years ago when some boys asked it to sponsor their team. Fearing mayhem, Kutis and his father gloomily agreed, saw their stark pessimism confirmed when a boy broke his leg before even a ghoul was scored. They dropped the team, but five years ago Tom Kutis decided to try again. He built his championship team exclusively from home-town St. Louis boys, although at times he has hired a European coach. "We don't import players," says Kutis. "St. Louis boys fit in better with...
...fifty-fifty between abstraction and realism. It's good to have a big show, especially in New York. The worst and the best are excluded. What is hanging now is in the in-between level. The level is surprisingly good, if we consider how many bad pictures we saw before the show was selected...
...exaggerated picture of the drop since they ignore segments of the economy that are steady or rising. So great is the latitude for individual interpretation that last week three of the nation's top economists, looking at the same set of indexes, made three different conclusions. One saw an upturn coming "during the year" another hazarded only "not in the first half, and yet a third guessed "maybe by spring...