Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...championship, but tonight the varsity just could not capitalize on these handicaps. It could never really crack through the unexpectedly tough Wolverine defense until 15:17 of the final period when Bob McVey saved the Crimson from a shutout with a blazing shot that Michigan goalie Ross Childs never saw...
Meanwhile, with the help of Salvador Dali, Niarchos is making another sort of contribution to art. The Spanish painter is painting the Greek magnate. Explained Dali: "I wanted to paint him as I first saw him when he visited me at my home on the beach near Barcelona. He swam in from the Creole, and I saw him rising from the sea like a Greek...
...other hand, Republican farm politicians, who see a congressional election coming up in 1958 with no Eisenhower on the ticket, feared that the downturn in parity indicated that the farm slump has still not hit bottom. They also saw a risk that null relatively good hog prices will stimulate an oversupply of pork in 1958, that a 4% increase in cattle now in feedlots will mean lower prices for quality steaks and roasts this fall, that current low prices for eggs (7½ a dozen under last year at the farm) will continue, and that the price supports under dairy...
Novelist Karlludwig Opitz, 42, is not immune to the occupational malady of satirists, a sneaking fondness for the subject satirized. As a longtime professional soldier who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion at 17 and saw action with the Wehrmacht in France and Africa during World War II. he gives full marks to courage, loyalty and military skill. Turned blind, these virtues become the "Furor teutonicus," a vice at which Author Opitz takes wry derisive aim, proving that a laugh can be deadlier than a Luger...
...much as a bone. The country was on the verge of revolution when along came F.D.R. He didn't know much about economics, but he was nice to liberals such as Rexford Tugwell, who proclaimed that "the future is becoming visible in Russia," and A. A. Berle, who saw "no great difference between having all industry run by a committee of Commissars and by a small group of Directors." Above all, F.D.R. denounced business and was committed to large doses of statism. At book's end, in 1933, Roosevelt, "armored in some inner faith . . . serenely awaited the morrow...