Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoot the scene. With Roy at the wheel, they raced south toward the front line along a road flanked on one side by the Suez Canal, on the other by a fresh-water canal. The front was unmarked. British paratroopers, dug in along the side of the road, saw the jeep coming and tried to wave it down. It roared by. Some 1,000 yards down the road, it shot past an Egyptian outpost. Then the luck that had held so miraculously through wars, riots and revolutions was suddenly shattered in a burst of Egyptian machine-gun fire. The jeep...
...educational organization." But in its monthly Facts Forum News (reported circ. 100,000), a clutter of radio and TV shows, e.g., Reporters' Roundup, Topic of the Week, and widely distributed "public-opinion" polls, Hunt's nonprofit-and tax-free-foundation promoted a far-right, McCarthyist line that saw "dangerously radical tendencies" in the Republican Party (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). As he folded all the projects, paid off employees and bought up outstanding contracts, publicity-shy Hunt kept mum as usual. But his programs were plainly victims of acute public indifference. Said one of his associates: "He just...
Many officials complain that "lowincome" families drive up to food distributing centers in taxis or new cars. Said one: "When I saw one man stuffing that food into the trunk of his brand-new automobile. I figured that something was wrong with the system." W. A. Moore, who oversees distribution in Pulaski County. Ark., says that about half of the people on the county's free-food rolls would be removed if they were investigated, but there are not enough county workers to check on them. Taxpayers-and politicians-have learned that opposition to the program is extremely unpopular...
...names to suit his fancy, and soon were quite unconsciously calling each other Brother Door, Brother Bad. Brother Cookie. Brother Ding-Dong. The monks also learned, as people with children generally do, that new lives bring new sorrows with them. One day. when he was five years old. Marcelino saw a woman for the first time, a country wife. She told him that she had a boy the same age as Marcelino, and that his name was Manuel. Marcelino could not take his eyes off her. At last he said wonderingly. "You're very beautiful." After that Marcelino...
...afterwards." And the Lord replied, "You will have to go to sleep. Go to sleep, Marcelino." And the child slept in the Lord, and the light of the world blazed in the simple attic, and all the brothers coming in fell down on their knees and worshiped what they saw. And from that day forward, the people came from the length and breadth of the land to adore the miracle of Marcelino Pan y Vino...