Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night before Goldfine was to appear before the subcommittee, in Room 805 in Washington's sedate Sheraton-Carlton, he recorded and filmed parts of his statement for radio and television, with McCrary on hand to yell "Take One," "Take Two" and "Take Three." The Goldfine statement was released for seven o'clock the next morning, three hours before he was to testify-a fact which infuriated the subcommittee because it 1) was impertinent and improper, and 2) beat the subcommittee to the early headlines...
...Neither law nor custom bars flying 48-star flags or even 13-star flags. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson gave the U.S. Navy responsibility for planning changes in flag design. President Eisenhower will probably follow Wilson's executive order, hand the problem to the Navy, which in turn may appoint a design commission...
Obvious Answer. New York Republican Taber, an old hand at cent-counting, argued that armed foreign troops can defend their homelands far cheaper and better than expensively armed ($3,500 to $4,000 each) U.S. troops. But such sound answers were swept under piles of Passman detail, 19 columns of it quoted from his own hearings. Despite the President's press-conference claim that, by his "understanding," House Democratic leaders would not make the foreign aid vote a partisan affair, they let Otto Passman beat down Republican efforts to restore the cuts, send the mangled bill to the Senate...
Although the play is often presented, rarely is a production seen with the obvious craftsmanship and creativity of the present one. Director Basil Langton has fully realized the author's attempt to give flesh to a social abstraction and on the other hand to give eloquence and stature to flesh that is at times all too solid. The author seems to ask, when and how can the sons of the men who carved a country out of the frontier with the strength of their hands adjust to the business suit and all the other impersonal appurtenances of a white collar...
...Fare. In Melbourne, Australia, completely unaware that he had been followed onto a jammed streetcar, a suspected pickpocket gave himself away by slipping his hand into the pocket of Detective Reg Henderson...