Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time in Berlin. Reading slowly at lecture pace from a prepared text, .Premier Khrushchev announced: "The time has come when the powers who signed the Potsdam agreement should give up the remnants of the German occupation regime. The Soviet Union, for its part, will hand over those functions which it still retains in Berlin to the sovereign German Democratic Republic [meaning Communist-run East Germany], and the U.S., French and British can form their own relations with East Germany if they still have questions about Berlin...
...lead, the authorities began to exhume some bodies. Nine of them (eight men and a woman) were found to have been partly dismembered, apparently to make ritual meals for cannibals. Ten suspects were rounded up and they readily admitted murdering 34 victims, explained that they ate the hand muscles of their victims to gain the skillfulness of the murdered one, the heart and liver to acquire his courage, the sexual organs to gain his power. Like the famed Aniotas or leopard men, Belgian officials say, the murderers often wore hooded, waist-long cloaks of crocodile skin that left their arms...
...cartoon in the Chicago Sun showed Artur Rodzinski sailing high over the Chicago skyline astride a musical note. His grey mane streamed in the wind; one hand clutched a baton. Above his smiling face loomed a defiant caption: "I shall return...
...this year's record crop and surpluses. Next year's crop may be equally large, or larger, partly because the Government will scrap soil-bank payments to farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made this year. On the other hand, the Government will have to pay more in price supports in the months ahead to compensate for the surge in crop production. Yet despite the fact that farmers complain about the prices they get for their crops, reported the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago last week, the value of the farms...
...really sophisticated work. The great breakthrough came with the development of a super pulse-servo that could handle 6,000 pulses per second, fast enough to direct the most complex piece of milling work. To start the system, the operator merely runs the machine through its work by hand a first time. As he performs the task, the stylus records his most minute steps on tape, which then slavishly repeats the process endlessly with the pulse-servos. Cost of the system, which comes in a cabinet no bigger than a medium-size hi-fi set: from...