Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prosperity. "Last winter the Administration gave the private citizen and private enterprise a helping hand-not a federal wheelchair. Now the recession is rapidly running out. Personal income is at an alltime high. Last month unemployment dropped by 600,000. Gross farm income, per capita farm income, land values, farm ownership are up or at record highs. We should be able to keep the consumer price level stable over the next year-and isn't that great news for every family in America...
This time De Gaulle spoke without notes; yet his thoughts were orderly, and his words precise. He spoke with quiet confidence, punctuated only by a shrug, the raising of an eyebrow, a majestic gesture of the hand. Only when talking of the bloodshed in Algeria did he show strain or emotion. "It should be known," said he, "that in four years in Algeria about 1,500 French civilians have been killed. More than 10,000 Moslems, men, women and children, have been massacred by the rebels-almost always by throat-cutting. What a hecatomb that country would know...
...Gaulle above all men knew, he had taken only one more calculated step down a long road. In Cairo the F.L.N.'s government in exile, which had been proclaiming its eagerness to talk peace, now betrayed its fear that De Gaulle had the upper hand. Premier Ferhat Abbas bluntly rejected the idea of going to Paris, which would seem like surrender, insisted that negotiations take place in "some neutral country." Yet De Gaulle had placed the F.L.N. rebels in a delicate position. For the first time, Paris had a government not about to topple at any moment...
Penn, on the other hand, started the season badly and has been steadily improving. It lost the opening game of the season to Dartmouth 2 to 1 (the Crimson beat the Green in overtime by the same score), but has won its next four games, including a victory over Princeton, one of the Ivy League powers...
...eight games for a 1.4 average, will open in the nets, while Bill Rapp, Marsh McCall, and Charlie Steele will be at the halfbacks. The varsity will need all the defense it can get, as Penn specializes in the same kind of wide-open attack that enabled Amherst to hand the varsity its only defeat of the year...