Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter old man, lacking even the salt of irony. With a single yellow eye, and white hair growing in his ears. Leaning on a hickory cane, complaining out of pride, sexless, slowly rubbing one palsied hand across his navel and nodding in that dead omniscience of the past. Waiting for the world to come to him like a pig-tailed child. He is a Society, a god sometimes called Moloch...
Sharing the Wealth. Goldfine's quick hand with cash became so famous last week that House investigators pricked up their ears when they heard that his mills had sold the U.S. Army $2,255,000 worth of cloth in the last five years for uniform shirts and pants. (Also: $42,651 for green pool-table cloth, presumably used to cover Navy mess tables.) At the same time the investigators were asking Goldfine to bring to the committee, when he appears next week, some $770,000 in uncashed cashier's checks that they learned about from study...
...hint that such legislation might well be unconstitutional. Warned he: "We deal here with a constitutional right of the citizen, a right which we must assume Congress will be faithful to respect." Nonetheless, a couple of bills designed to strengthen the State Department's hand in denying passports to subversives were introduced in the House and Senate...
...dollars?" Lost in the mist of millions himself, Gulbenkian fashioned an heir after his own heart, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which is preparing to house the art collection in Lisbon. On July 20, 1955, alone save for a nurse and secretary, Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, 86, kissed the last hand he could not bite-death...
Magic Money. Gulbenkian was an Armenian, but he did not rise from rugs to riches. His father. Sarkis. was a prosperous kerosene importer in suburban Constantinople. Calouste adopted an old Arab proverb as his first business maxim while palm-priming the sultan's retinue with baksheesh: "The hand you dare not bite, kiss it." Priming himself with a civil engineering degree at London's King's College, Calouste visited the Baku oilfields in 1888, and in his 20th year wrote an authoritative book on the Baku petroleum industry. It was the overture to decades of what Gulbenkian...