Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McNeil, a reserve World War II rear admiral (fiscal affairs), was accused of having a dark influence over his bosses, of unfairly favoring the Navy over the other services. But over the years, Pentagon brass, as well as congressional committees, learned that he cut dispassionately wherever he thought he saw fat. And his best defense against any outcry was that he knew more about budgetary details than anybody else...
Minutes later a corporal's guard of teachers came toward Orgeron: Miss Johnson backed off to lead most of her children toward the building. In the patio she saw School Custodian James Montgomery. "Mr. Montgomery," she said, "that man has dynamite out there." Orgeron shouted: "Stay away from here or I'll blow you to pieces!" At his side, still wordless, was Dusty. The rest of the schoolchildren had stopped their games and were watching...
...else-complete integration with France . . . Algerians would benefit as regards salaries, social security, education and vocational training, from all measures provided for in Metropolitan France; they would live and work wherever they saw fit throughout the territory of the Republic; in other words, they would . . . become part and parcel of the French people, who would then, in effect, spread from Dunkirk to Tamanrasset...
...ideal connoisseurs of modern music, because they have no built-in esthetic prejudices, and last week Venice's prestigious International Festival of Contemporary Music paused in the midst of its strenuously avant-garde schedule to put the theory to the test. In the baroque Fenice Theater, the kids saw nine one-act Games and Fables for Children, composed on commission by a group of noted moderns...
Last April Dr. Vaught called at Jimmy's store, gave him a Bible ("The first New Testament I ever saw," says Jimmy), read him some verses of Scripture. After a revival meeting, Jimmy was converted, joined Immanuel Baptist Church and broke with his segregationist cronies-but refuses to say whether or not he himself is still a segregationist. "I haven't seen one of those men," he says, "since I accepted Jesus as my Saviour." He also gave up smoking, drinking and joyrides in Cadillacs...