Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They stood in a ring around me and just grinned. They were the meanest grins I ever saw. I was scared. Then the biggest one hit me in the face, and they all jumped on me. It's hard to say how many they were; it was pretty dark. I recognized the meanest one--he was kind of short--from a picture in the newspapers. They knocked me down and then kicked me. I can't remember anything else. It was awful...
...control, installed pushbutton freight yards and increased dieselization. Last year he announced the beginning of a $500 million capital-improvement program, and early this year confidently crowed that Central's stock soon would be up to $100 and paying $8 a share. The stock climbed briefly, but Young saw his hopes dashed as Central's financial position deteriorated and the stock fell to around...
This made little sense to uranium men, who saw as their only incentive a present-day market for their ores. Many of the small-time uranium miners who do not have contracts to sell to existing mills will fold up altogether. Such a fallout could peril future U.S. uranium supply, since some of the richest U.S. uranium lodes have been discovered by the small timers who were willing to search in the most improbable places. Said Albuquerque's E. P. Chapman Jr., one of the Southwest's top mining engineers: "The new policy kills all further exploration...
Ruth Slenczynska was different. Before she was even born, her Polish immigrant father knew she would be a musician, and when he first saw her in a Sacramento hospital two hours after birth, he sobbed ecstatically over her sturdy wrists and padded fingertips. Twelve days later he confidently announced that she would "be one of the world's greatest musicians." He meant...
Miracle or Midget? As she began concertizing around Europe to cheering crowds at six, some listeners refused to believe that what they heard came from what they saw. In Berlin distinguished critics got down on all fours to examine her piano for the mechanical contraption that might explain the miracle. In Copenhagen the Danish press had her examined by a doctor to certify that she was really a child and not a midget; but New York critics wildly reached for their superlatives after her Town Hall debut at eight...