Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls dashed into the heavily curtained back kitchen, cried: "Now!" A grinning, red-haired schoolmaster called Glyn ducked between lines of drying laundry, flicked a wall switch, punched the playback button on a battered tape recorder, and darted back, screwdriver in hand, to his homemade 80-watt transmitter. And out into the night, on BBC-TV's Channel 5, went the Freedom Station's call signal: the sound of a pencil tapped three times on a saucepan...
...Hand. Five years ago such charges might have set off a national wave of self-examination in France. But now fatigue, frustration, and a conviction that the enemy himself is often more barbaric have resigned Frenchmen to barbarism in Algeria. In Algiers last week a Moslem who accidentally exploded a hand grenade, injuring no one but himself, was beaten to death by a street crowd; so, for good measure, was his companion. In West Germany, in an odd echo of the Algerian troubles, the public prosecutor of Frankfurt charged that a French underground organization called "the Red Hand" had murdered...
...pact with the U.S., Iran's government radio and press sassed Moscow back with a bravado unknown in earlier days. To charges that Iranian oil is being exploited by outsiders, Radio Teheran tartly urged Moscow: "Liberate the enslaved Rumanian workers from the claws of Soviet soldiers and hand back the oil to the Rumanian nation. Moscow thinks Iran is a second Rumania, where people have but one freedom-that of dying...
Just then another swan boat docked. "He pedals it like a bicycle," Jessie noticed. "No wonder it goes so slowly." She grabbed Clipper's hand and ran aboard. "Wish we could go swimming," she said to a little boy beside...
...swan boat changed course, pedaling full speed ahead towards the center of interest. "They're going to rescue my hat!" Jessie sighed in the tones of a movie heroine. And, indeed, the attendant was poking away the ducks with a pointed stick. After some sleight of boat and hand, he fished the hat out and proceeded on course...