Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote, Butler led his followers to an easy victory, 235 to 88. Soon a London woman may be able to stop and look in a shop window in the evening without an indignant prostitute hissing in her ear: "Get the hell off my beat!" On the other hand, she may have a policeman tap her on the shoulder and caution her against loitering...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a U.S. Air Force orchestra was on hand to blare out Old Soldiers Never Die as 96 former command and staff comrades offered their twelfth annual salute to the stern, bayonet-spined Old Man, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, turned 79. Among the many who wired birthday greetings: "Your old friend and assistant, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...farmer, shotgun in hand, approaches his chicken house to rout a suspected thief. He stumbles, the gun goes off-killing all the hens...
...water's edge, a captain on a black horse prances into view, and a gnarled pine dips its obscuring wing. The detail further shows that Chinese scroll paintings can be enjoyed a little at a time, as was intended. Ideally, the viewer unrolled the scroll from his left hand, very slowly, while rolling it up again with his right. Thus the scroll should be read like music (but from right to left), with its themes and counterthemes, its unexpected accents and climaxes...
...Soon we will be able to travel to Mars, to Pluto, to Venus," a professor told his Russian students. "Are there any questions?" A student in the back of the class raised his hand. ''When," he asked, "can we travel to Vienna...