Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pamphlet put out by the tourist office called it "Nyasaland-Darkest Africa in Fairest Mood." But in this fair spot last week the mood could not have been darker. Each day the upland country of clear lakes, sun-splashed valleys and misty mountaintops saw fresh upheavals, and the violence echoed beyond its borders. Not since Britain in 1953 merged Nyasaland with the two Rhodesias-forming a Central African Federation larger than California, Texas and New York combined-has there been such turmoil. And it seemed to be only beginning...
...Angeles, Shotputter Parry O'Brien was watching a track meet from the stands, saw University of Southern California Freshman Dallas Long uncork a heave of 63 ft. 4 in., apparently breaking O'Brien's world record. O'Brien promptly left his seat, changed into a track suit, went out and heaved the shot 63 ft. 6 in. Said O'Brien: "I had to do it. What would people think?" But neither performance counted because the field sloped...
Charles Willson Peale, portraitist, scientist and revolutionary idealist, had the same expansive spirit as his good friend Thomas Jefferson. He raised his children to be geniuses, saw them more or less painfully sink to the level of ordinary men and women. Young Raphaelle found solace, as he sank, in parlor games, ventriloquism, a pretty shrew of a wife, his art, and the bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical...
...Horne emphasized, "Of course this bomb was a peanut compared to today's hydrogen bombs, and because it was exploded 2000 feet above the ground its permanent radioactivity was relatively small." He added, "Ever since I saw the ruins of Nagasaki I have been convinced that the only answer to the bomb is a United Nations which can settle disputes by law and which has a police force to back up its decisions...
Twenty years later, Behrman encountered Howard in Hollywood and inquired after the whereabouts of the Prize-winner, whose name he had forgotten. "Oh, I saw him just last week," said Howard. "I went with Sam Goldwyn to Tijuana, and we had just entered a gambling house, when I heard a voice: 'Hello, Sidney!' It was the fellow who won the Castle Square Prize; he was the croupier...