Word: hand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...meet everyone in the office of Under Secretary of State Christian Herter right after his special midafternoon news conference. And that event, as the tumult mounted, was moved from Humphrey's office to the Senate Armed Services Committee room to accommodate the 100 newsmen who were on hand to hear much the same material that Humphrey had already disclosed to reporters in Europe (TIME...
...Farmer Sellers, 37th and final Negro witness at a two-day fact-finding hearing of the Federal Civil Rights Commission, concluded his testimony last week, Father Hesburgh was not the only disturbed member of the six-man commission. Authorized 15 months ago by Congress, the panel had been hand-picked by the White House, with an oversensitive attention to balance between three Northerners and three Southerners...
Cautious and deliberate by nature, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has a terrible temper when pressed-and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield pressed him. Unless businessmen get into politics, Republican Summerfield warned the National Association of Manufacturers fortnight ago, "candidates hand-picked by union bosses and elected by the campaign activities directed by union bosses will come to dominate the halls of Congress and, Heaven forbid, eventually perhaps the White House itself...
...Adenauer's stand was his conviction (based on "intelligence sources") that Khrushchev is currently engaged in some kind of power struggle in Moscow, as evidenced by the dismissal of the hated police boss Ivan Serov (see below), and that an uncompromising Western stand on Berlin would strengthen the hand of Nikita's critics within the Politburo. The Kremlin has indeed been sounding an uncertain note of late, in its diplomatic huffing and puffing on Berlin. It threatens time limits, then withdraws them. It fills the air with windy ultimatums. Last week the Russians said again that unless...
With less than two minutes to play, it seemed as if the loyal and loud supporters of the visiting sextet would be rewarded, when Morrison skated around McLaughlin and lifted the puck into the left-hand corner of the cage. But Les Duncan slapped in Dave Crosby's center to set the stage for Higginbottom...