Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek Orthodox Ethnarch of Cyprus and leader of the Greek Cypriot movement for enosis (union with Greece). This would give Foot a Greek Cypriot with whom to negotiate. And Makarios might be persuaded to restrain EOKA's gunmen, he argued. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, who had a hand in Makarios' expulsion from the island in 1956, did not agree. He admitted that Makarios would have to be allowed to return to Cyprus eventually-but not until the archbishop gave advance proof that he would curb violence. The Cabinet compromised: Foot glumly went back to Cyprus last week...
After the Chinese Reds began shelling the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy, the Globe and Mail renewed its demands to hand over Quemoy, extend diplomatic recognition and welcome the Chinese Communists into the U.N. The Globe and Mail reprinted three editorials in ads in the New York Times, drew a freshet of letters from both sides of the border, including an approving note in the Times from John Carter Vincent, left-leaning onetime U.S. diplomat who was fired from the State Department...
...Harpoon's slippery deck yelling: "Keep her on course!" As a defiant helmsman slammed the Harpoon into a mangrove thicket, uniformed Cuban revolutionaries poured from the cabin. One tried to fire his submachine gun, failed only because the clip was in backwards; another exploded a defective hand grenade, blowing off a finger. The rest purpled the air with curses...
When Mike Todd, Liz Taylor's third husband, was killed in a plane crash last May, Debbie and Eddie were on hand to help console her. The Todds and the Fishers had been good friends (although in retrospect last week, Debbie made a fine point to the effect that perhaps they had not really been "good friends" but only "just friends"). When Eddie and Liz were in New York two weeks ago, consolation continued in nightclubs and during a weekend at Grossinger's. After Liz and Eddie finally returned to the coast, there followed a barrage of press...
...clouds kept darkening-as far away as Miami. There, Artist Ralph Cowan was stuck with a life-size portrait of Debbie that she had ordered for Eddie's birthday. "Now she doesn't want it," said Cowan. He also had a portrait of Liz on hand. "The man who ordered it never finished the payments." So Cowan shipped it to an eager buyer, Eddie Fisher. It seemed like the most sensible maneuver of the week...