Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haunted" castle of Tiffauges on the old Brittany frontier. First came Mayor Fernand Baron, followed by a gesticulating guide, two workmen with shovels, and a government archaeologist. The mayor led the party down a circular stone stairway to the crypt of the castle chapel. By flashlight the men saw two rows of granite columns dividing the vaulted 12-ft. ceiling into three naves. Before the granite altar at the end of the 27-ft. crypt lay a pile of stones...
...Sturgis, Ky. (pop. 2,222), which also saw trouble last year, Publisher Bud Calman of the News reported: "I've been up and down the street these last three days trying to appraise our situation, and I haven't heard one word which would indicate trouble." Said a school official in nearby Clay: "I don't believe we'll have any trouble-but you never can tell...
Then the French daily, L'Equipe, published a picture of Yuri in action. Every high-jumper who saw it leaped to a quick-conclusion: there was something sneaky about the Soviet jumper's sneakers. The sole of the take-off shoe looked uncommonly thick. Maybe it was bouncy enough to give Igor and Yuri an extra boost...
...word "angry" in one series of exposures and "happy" in another. The words were flashed on the screen for only a few thousandths of a second, too briefly for the subjects to be aware of what they were seeing. Consciously, the subjects could see only the picture. Subconsciously, they saw picture and words. They tended to think that they saw the face becoming either angry or happy, depending on which word was Hashed on the screen...
...abandoned his father's principle of attending to one thing at a time to resume tinkering with electricity. The principle of the telegraph was in his head. After a decade of tinkering Morse achieved what he was after. Sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives, he saw the bill passed authorizing him to string some experimental wire between Washington and Baltimore, and 15 months later -on May 24, 1844-he flashed the first message over those 41 miles: WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT...