Word: hand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impatiently outside the chamber. The cause of all the fuss, a suntanned young man with a face that looked familiar, stood somberly in the well of the House and responded to the oath with a quick "I do." The gallery applauded vigorously; House Democrats pushed up to pump the hand of their new colleague. Eleanor Roosevelt sat beaming in the presidential gallery, remembering (she reported later) all the times she had watched her husband sworn in to public office. This time another Roosevelt-brawny, 34-year-old Franklin D. Jr.-had stepped onto the national political stage...
...alert and quick of eye, just able to peer over the back of the high mahogany bench; Murphy with a starched, far-off look; Jackson with his openwork, Dutch expression; Rutledge rocklike, Reed massive and heavy-jowled, Harold Burton with an air of avuncular interest. The court began to hand out what is promised by the marble figures on the wall: Divine Inspiration, Justice, Wisdom and Truth...
...world goes on here?" Then Ruth shot him. The bullet tore through his right lung, stopped near his spine. Eddie rolled onto his back on the carpet, looked up with a shocked smile and whispered: "Baby, what did you do that for?" Ruth knelt and held his hand. "You like this, don't you," Eddie murmured. Ruth called the telephone operator and said she had shot...
...other dozen, Anita Maxwell Gil of 101 Paso, Texas received her degree summa cum laude in absentia yesterday morning, and all the rest were on hand to take their diplomas with magna cum laude honors...
...feel sure that no one in this audience has any question as to the validity of the Harvard tradition of free inquiry on the one hand and the independence of the faculties on the other. However, last there he any misunderstanding about our position today, I am venturing to take a moment of your time to discuss the situation which faces Harvard and other universities...