Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unwanted Don Luciano, the Affricans posted sentries on the road, with conch-shell horns and a bell. They barricaded the doors of the church with stones. When the priest of an adjoining parish, fearing that Affrico had gone too long without the sacraments, came up the mountain to say a Mass, the villagers took down the stones temporarily, but only five people attended...
...board chairman of Chicago's City National Bank and Trust Co., celebrated his 84th birthday by brushing off newsmen who wanted his views on the state of the world. Growled Dawes: "I'm an old man. No one wants to hear what I have to say...
Pasquel offered him $75,000 cash to sign (and double the salary he was getting with the Cardinals). Stan promptly made a date with Cardinal Owner Sam Breadon to say goodbye. But Eddie Dyer, in serious danger of becoming a manager without a ball club, saw Musial first. Stan stayed around, led the league with a .365 batting average, helped win the pennant and the World Series, was elected the league's most valuable player...
Bring a Tub. When the tree is found, it is marked. Then, in October, when the bees have stored all the honey they are going to for the season, the tree is cut down, or, as bee hunters say, "taken up." Bring a tub, advises Edgell. "The humiliation of returning [with the tub nearly empty] is as nothing compared to the exasperation of filling a couple of buckets and finding that you have no way of transporting the rest ..." His best haul: 97 Ibs. of honey from one tree...
...when the steelmen tried to say so, they put their foot in it. "[The] irregular procedure," said Bethehem Steel Corp.'s President Arthur B. Hgmer, "appears to be designed merely as a vehicle for forcing upon us important concessions." He was cut short by Board Member Samuel Rosenman, ex-New Deal brain-truster.* "Am I to understand," he asked, "that because other boards recommended an increase, you assume that we necessarily were set up for [that] purpose...