Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just in time to watch France's Bastille Day celebration. Few days later, while his wife was shopping, he stepped down into the metro subway on his way to lunch. There, alone in the Place de la Concorde Station, his tired heart suddenly stopped. In his hand he still clutched his subway ticket. In his pocket...
Last week, with the primary almost at hand (July 23), organized Labor belatedly was out to deflate Candidate O'Daniel's sudden, sensational boom by recalling how he sponsored an open-shop movement in Fort Worth. When his rivals taunted him with having paid no poll tax he re plied: "No politician in Texas is worth $1.75." When they called him a "carpet bagger" born in Ohio, raised in Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that...
...chiefs reckoned without a sudden heat wave which shot thermometers up to phenomenal highs all over the southern Soviet provinces. Result: winter and spring grain ripened simultaneously instead of one after the other, the harvest rush was doubled. Plan chiefs believed, however, that they had the situation well in hand, predicted that this year it will be possible to reap 47% of the Soviet grain crop by machinery, whereas the figure last year...
...them, since compressed carbon dioxide freezes its container when expanding. Linked with a long towline, the rafts would float together until help could come. To call for help there was a waterproof, 10-inch square, 15-watt radio transmitter run by dry cells. If these gave out, a waterproof hand generator could be used. The antenna would go aloft tied to a hydrogen-inflated balloon. For the guidance of rescue ships, smaller orange balloons would be blown up, cast on the ocean waves every 15 minutes...
After hearing Dr. Card, the State Board of Education sent to Gilbert and other school districts of the State a rebuke for whimsical and discriminatory firing, the board scolded: "If we would not dismiss a hired hand from a farm or a clerk from a store without adequate cause, we must not expect to do so in the teaching profession and still get good teaching...