Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When well-fed Crooner Elvis Presley ambled into Fort Chaffee, Ark. for three days of induction processing, some 50 newsmen (plus Elvis' manager) were on hand to record every detail. Abetted by space-conscious Army brass, reporters gathered brief quotes at every step from reveille to taps (sample: "I had a good night's sleep, and I decided to get up"), gleefully watched the Presley poll being pared by a civilian barber, snapped for posterity US 53310761-whose normal garb runs to cat boots, loud sports jackets and open-necked shirts-in a singularly unpressed set of fatigues...
...weeks over, the graft had taken on the foot. Barron cut it loose, and Kelsey gave the order: "Unlock it." The patient did. His arm, despite its month's fixation, was fully flexible and painless: he could immediately work a cigarette lighter with the fingers of his left hand...
...they did find something to write about, they had the problem of getting it to Singapore. The Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech finally had to send one dispatch by ship, a two-day trip. Luckier newsmen used the rebels' clandestine radio transmitter in Padang, sent out hand-tapped signals that were monitored by the news agencies in Singapore, 300 miles away...
...third possibility is that, being vain even as other men are vain, he will accept the inducements that are offered to him from every hand, will bestow an indiscriminate blessing upon whatever enterprise will ensure him the prestige and perquisites which he feels...
...This is my body,'' he wrote in chalk on the conference table at which he met with his fellow reformer Zwingli in 1529. and Luther always maintained that when the Christian believer received the host, the bread contained the body of Christ as a glove contains a hand. Luther also stood fast against such other variants of Protestantism as the humanists represented by Erasmus, and the radicals like Nicolaus Storch and Marcus Stubner, who wanted to do away with the apparatus of the church altogether. The ordained minister and the liturgy. Luther maintained, were necessary to the sacraments...