Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week. It was midmorning. and crowds milled through the busiest shopping area of Cyprus' third-largest city (pop. 21,100). Five pistol shots rang out and, just ten yards from the Hereon's box office, a man slumped to the sidewalk, wounded in face, chest, abdomen and hand. The gunman fired a sixth shot and disappeared among the shoppers. The victim, who died a short while later, was a man especially disliked by EOKA terrorists: William Dear, 61-year-old police interrogator of the Special Branch. He was the first Englishman killed since the Greek Cypriot underground declared...
...arrived that night, Accra had a full house. It was a little disappointing that only one chief of state had shown, but with the exception of South Africa-which would not come unless colonial powers were invited-all of Africa's independent states, Arab and black, were on hand...
...week's end signs were that Peking had overplayed its hand and overindulged its mouth. With elaborate unconcern, Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama predicted that the Chinese Reds would eventually "calm down" and trade with Japan anyway. And as he headed out into the rain for his annual cherryblossom-viewing party, Nobusuke Kishi ostentatiously shared his umbrella with Nationalist China's beaming Ambassador Shen Chin-ting...
...were slapped into imported shovels, wooden bases with the same markings were attached to Japanese sewing machines, and all the loot found its way north to market. Most lucrative item of all was the automobile, legally subject to duties of six times or more its U.S. market value. Second-hand cars shipped to Patagonia from the U.S. were driven north across the border, repainted, equipped with forged papers and sold for profits of 800%. Total contraband within the first year: an estimated $60 million worth of cars, $70 million worth of other luxuries...
...year-old daughter Nancy penned for her school paper the hot scoop on why her daddy always wears a bow tie: Soapy is sloppy with soup. At one dinner with the late Governor Frank Murphy, young Pol Williams eased himself into a dining-room chair, sloshed his four-in-hand in the mushroom soup, stood up, dripped more soup down his shirt front. Mother Williams rushed for cleaning gear, allowed the rolls to burn in the confusion, choking the guests with kitchen smoke. But the evening was not lost. Commented Nancy: "It did succeed in breaking the ice with guests...