Word: saws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senators told Carter upon returning to Washington, that was a gross understatement. ''We saw people in a makeshift hospital, lying under plastic sheets held up by poles,'' said Sasser at a press conference. ''The living, the dying and the dead were all together. The only noise to be heard was the cough of children with tuberculosis. There were emaciated people in the final stages of malnutrition." Danforth added that the plight of refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border "defies the imagination. What struck me was to spend hour after hour and see only starving...
...that a ''low-yield nuclear explosion occurred on Sept. 22 in an area of the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic'' between South Africa and Antarctica. Officials disclosed that sensing devices on a U.S. satellite had detected the explosion. What the sensors ''saw'' was a flash of light, which dimmed for a microsecond, then became brighter. It was interpreted to be the tell-tale signature of a two-kiloton nuclear blast...
...Webern, one of the great innovators of the 20th century, this was a spiritual matter. In every vista he saw a creative idea logically developed. The merest wild flower reminded him of Goethe's ''primeval plant,'' symbol of the unity of all organic life. Most important, his moun tain treks re-enacted his artistic aspirations. More than any composer before or since, Webern worked on the timberline between sound and silence. His austere, rigorously condensed pieces seem to hover in a clear, rarefied ether of their own, like clusters of ice crystals on the point...
...composer who is perceived as an epochal innovator, Webern never saw himself in opposition to the Austro-German musical tradition that extends from Bach through Mahler. To his composition students he held up Beethoven's sonatas as the supreme models of craftsmanship. The Columbia LPs conclude with a 1932 recording of him conducting his own orchestration of some Schubert dances-a gesture of homage that was not unusual for him. What passed for classicism in his own day, he wrote in one of the letters quoted by the Moldenhauers, ''emulates the style without knowing its meaning . . . whereas...
Canizaro's first market plunge was a bluff, ''I had been studying the market reading everything I could get my hands on. I saw that there were a lot of short sellers in Lukens Steel. I was sure that the stock would rise, but I didn't have the money to pay for it. I bluffed my broker into buying 1,500 shares. Three days later I sold it for a profit of $10,210.'' Canizaro...