Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northern polling station of Koumea last week, the first voter of the day strode in stark naked except for a straw hat. In the south, nationalists regaled reporters with accusations of repeat voting by government supporters: the ink stamped on each voter's hand to prevent his voting twice apparently washed off easily. But when day was done, the unexpected news began to spread: Olympio's party had won 60% of the votes, and 31 out of 46 Assembly seats...
...government-held ports and airfields were repeatedly bombed and strafed, he cried that "adventurers from Formosa and even from the United States" were responsible (President Eisenhower's answer: "Our policy is one of careful neutrality and proper deportment . . . Now, on the other hand, every rebellion that I have ever heard of has its soldiers of fortune."). Advising the U.S. "not to play with fire," Sukarno added: "If the outside world is thinking in terms of making Indonesia into a second Korea or a second Viet Nam, there will be World...
Tall and erect in a severe black vest and tail coat, Arturo Frondizi laid his hand on the Bible and swore to discharge his duties with "loyalty and patriotism." Cannon in the square outside boomed a 21-gun salute, and the 3,000 people jammed into the 1,000-seat Hall of Congress cheered the return of constitutional government after a decade of dictatorship and 31 months of military rule...
...Holloway) who starred in it on Broadway, Lady captivated most of the city's captious critics (said the Times: "A musical comedy of the first water"), who often delight in panning U.S. productions. Afterward, temperamental, triumphant Actor Harrison, escorted by Cinemactress Wife Kay Kendall, gamely offered a limp hand to a wellwisher...
...been destroyed. For an act, as the emotional furniture is set in place in Designer Ben Edwards' gloomy, fan-vaulted hall, Eric Portman-playing Rochester in the manner of a wholly masculine Tallulah Bankhead-wards off collapse. But Jan Brooks is never Jane. Adapter Hartford's hand is never skilled, and things more and more creak till what goes up, quite melodramatically in smoke, is not so much Thornfield Hall as a mass of theatrical deadwood...