Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly 500 intensely partisan Holy Cross fans saw the varsity lacrosse team defeat the Crusaders 8 to 6 yesterday afternoon. Playing in the Holy Cross football stadium, the Crimson came to life in the third period and easily overcame a 2-1 halftime deficit...
...soon ended when in the spring of the following year he set out to the Solomons, where he formed a friendship with Admiral Nimitz. Establishing headquarters in Hawaii, he spent the summer canvassing the combat area of the South Pacific. He survived the Japanese air attack on Guadalcanal and saw even more action on the night of July 12, when his ship engaged in a skirmish as it crossed the "slot" between Guadalcanal and Bougainville. A brief review of Atlantic waters notwithstanding, he stayed in the South Pacific until the end of the year aboard the heavy cruiser Baltimore, which...
...Strength of a Saw. Whether proud Francisco Franco will agree to such painful reforms is questionable. But even if he does not get the IMF loan, he is confident that the U.S. and other anti-Communist powers will not stand by and let his regime succumb to economic disaster. And despite all the grumbling among his people, Franco believes that their vivid memories of the bloody days when brother killed brother in Spain will keep them from open revolt. After 20 years in power, Franco's one great strength with his countrymen lies in the old Spanish saw: "Better...
...Cavaliers sang their jaunty When the King Enjoys His Own Again. But from start to finish, "the Parliamentarians encouraged a solemn godliness" that was best expressed by the Roundhead who said: "Is any merry? Let him sing psalms." The exhortation made sense to London's Protestant merchants, who saw in every Cavalier excess the worldly hand of the Papal archfiend. It found the same response in all who refused to allow Royalist glamour to blind their eyes to the King's infinite capacity for treachery, deceit and absolutism. The Roundheads' chosen poet, John Milton, sang them...
...been prepared for eccentric remarks--after all, the chap wrote poetry--but to claim that the meaning of life sat on the mantel in a Harvard room! Shaken, he reached for the object which he now saw to be a corked bottle containing a crumpled piece of dark cloth...