Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a political reporter saw and reported the Red seizure of the Progressive Convention at Philadelphia. Wallace did not notice it. Afterwards he said blandly: "I would say that the Communists are the closest things to the early Christian martyrs. But I can truthfully say that the Communists have not come to me, as such. I saw one hurriedly in a railroad station not long ago. I don't recall his name. I told him I believed in progressive capitalism. That stopped him and I haven't heard from the Communists since...
...Years ago Ana's husband disappeared in Russia; some say Ana herself denounced...
...Some non-Japanese flower listeners say that the evening primrose (Oenothera) makes a "snapping" sound when it opens. Seed pods, of course, can be much noisier; on warm September days phlox pods explode with a soft pop. The squirting cucumber (Ecballium) of Southern Europe sounds like a cork leaving a champagne bottle, and the tropical sandbox tree (Hura, crepitans) has an orange-sized capsule which "explodes with a loud report...
...that would keep them out of the World Series. The tipoff on Red Sox power and depth: when their batting star, Ted Williams, was benched recently with a bad back, the club won 13 out of 15 games. Said Joe McCarthy last week, with the air of a man saying all there was to say, '.'You got to lose some ball games during a season and we happened to lose ours early, that...
When Johns Hopkins asked M.I.T.'s Karl Compton to submit a list of candidates, he sent back only one name-Bronk's. Largely on Compton's say-so, the university scarcely considered its 100-odd other candidates. Johns Hopkins was getting a man who once advised universities to hold firm against those who thought they "should assume the functions of a trade school or provide entertainment for the masses," and against parents who, having failed to bring their children up properly, "insist that the university become a school for manners or an elite reformatory...