Word: hand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, nervously cascading a stream of quarters from one hand to the other, he talked a little about himself. "Right now I'm cleaner than 99% of New Yorkers," he said. "Now I don't want you should get the wrong impression-I never sold any Bibles." But he insisted that he obeyed the law. "There they all are wit' their shotguns waiting for me to come out of a hole like a rabbit. You think I could get away with anything? It's ridiculous...
Never a man to hold a grudge, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas arrived in Tucson, Ariz, for a rest, displaying a hand-painted necktie picturing his favorite mount, Kendall. Kendall is the horse that fell on the justice last month, leaving him with 17 broken ribs and a punctured right lung...
...Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota, there was no cause for complaint except perhaps that hunters got their daily bag limit (four ducks) too quickly, often in the first 15 minutes. In the most northern lakes and sloughs, when the season was ending last week, connoisseurs had been hand-picking the breed of duck they would gun for, choosing them for flavor. Said one hunter down from Manitoba: "We all got canvasbacks. Had a camp rule that anyone who shot a duck besides a canvasback would be fined two-bits." On recipes there was a wide spread of opinion. Fast cooked...
Laboratory workers are warned to touch equipment only when they have one hand in their pocket, Chaffee said. Harbury touched his instruments with two hands...
...concert, for which no admission is charged, is intended to give people from the Brooks House community centers and other projects a chance to hear "good" music first hand and to come in closer contact with the University, Pittenger said...