Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this high point of patriotic emotion, messengers came with the news that Gero was talking on the radio. Ferenc Kocsis went with part of the crowd to Radio Budapest, where the AVH were throwing tear-gas grenades. He saw a young boy?"just a little fellow with an open shirt and an old jacket, no overcoat and no hat"?pick up one of the grenades and throw it back. The AVH panicked, and the mob surged forward. Ferenc heard a burst of machine-gun fire. There was a sudden silence and then a roar went up, soft at first...
...truckdriver who worked 96 hours a week to keep his wife and two small children from starvation in a one-room apartment, Peter had his own view of Communism. Says he: "You need a special kind of character to be a Communist and rob the workers." Peter saw the Communist bosses riding around in big cars, bawling out the workers for being lazy, but it never occurred to him to join the Communist ranks. "If I'd been a Communist, I would have been a traitor to my buddies. Anyway I would have...
...record of seven successful bowl games was going on the line against Pitt's hungry Panthers, but Bobby Dodd, professionally casual coach of Georgia Tech's unbeaten Yellow Jackets, saw no reason to get steamed up about his trip to Jacksonville for the 'Gator Bowl game last week. As usual, he let his boys horse around in practice; as usual, he promised them that all they had to do to win was play for the breaks and trust in Dodd...
What gives power to the 47-in.-by-24-in. painting is the fact that it is obviously rooted in reality. The frail figure of 72-year-old Mrs. Merle Davis James is just as Wyeth saw her last summer in her house a mile from Wyeth's summer place in Gushing, Me. Stricken successively with a severe muscular disease, a heart attack and pneumonia, Mrs. James had finally climbed out from under an oxygen tent, snapped at the nurse, "All this is ridiculous." Wyeth, impressed and moved by her spirit and courage, set out to paint her during...
...hand once said of Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou was asked, by way of Burma's U Nu, to sit still for a filmed interview for U.S. television, Chou must have believed it would help him. It did not. But it helped those who saw a special rush edition of CBS's See It Now this week to get a remarkable portrait-with-sound of the man who is in name one of the masters of a fourth of the world's people, and by reputation one of democracy's most eloquent...