Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John McClellan put a hand to his eyes, bowed his head. "How much," he murmured, "am I supposed to bear...
...cause, though a surprising flock of younger men around the state seemed eager to campaign for him. Smart money gave him no better than third place in the eleven-man first primary. Odds-on favorite: Dry-Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat him in the primary, force a runoff with a tiny plurality of 427. Atkinson and the Gary machine fought wildly to catch up, but they could not match Edmondson's TV moxie or his nonstop attacks...
After the war, old "Pop" turned his hand to the Civil Air Transport, a Chinese commercial line that is healthy and profitable still. This, too, was tame stuff for an incandescent spirit. He took a second wife, a Chinese girl, and she bore him two children to add to the eight he had by his first. But what he needed was another uphill fight to win, and there was none around. Aimless, restless, unhappy, the hooded falcon began to wane. "Pop's face," an old China hand said, "looks like it's worn out three bodies already...
Pursuing his own line toward Khrushchev, De Gaulle wrote his reply in longhand, had it typed, then carefully corrected it in his own hand. He accepted the idea of a summit session in principle, but pointed out that such a conference could not "succeed except in an atmosphere of objectivity and serenity." Citing blustering passages in Khrushchev's invitation, he asked: "Why compare [the U.S.-British intervention] with the aggression once committed by Hitler against Poland? Hitler, alas, was not alone...
Cabell wrote the Biography because that was what he wanted most to do in life--a remarkably simple philosophy. "Here then," he wrote, "upon this shelf, in these brown volumes . . . I can lay my hand and eye upon just what precisely my life has amounted...