Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, the fight for reciprocal-trade extension without crippling amendments involves a national choice in which "every American can have a part." If enough U.S. citizens make themselves heard. Congress will listen. On the one hand, the nation can choose the way of "economic isolationism" and "cower behind new trade walls of our own building," abandoning the rest of the world to "those less blind to the events and tides now surging in the affairs of men." Or it can refuse to take the downward path and push "forward strongly along the clear road to greater . . . security and opportunity...
...head mason. Under his direction, the Arno was dammed, and the river bottom was searched for fragments left after the explosion. Studying the shards, Gizdulich deduced that the ancient masons had used special chiseling and cutting implements now unknown. Gizdulich designed similar tools and had them made by hand, taught a group of artisans to use them. The pieces of the old bridge were lovingly fitted and pieced out with new stone taken from the same Boboli Gardens quarry that Ammannati had employed. Architect Gizdulich grew so familiar with the ancient plans that he could even detect errors in Ammannati...
...ruled-out items: knives, cigarettes, matches (combs-which make effective face-slashers with the teeth broken out-may be banned next). One student, 15-year-old Charles McDougle, was out of line, refused to obey Teacher Edward Carpenter's command to get back in. Then Carpenter put his hand on McDou-gle's shoulder, in what Principal Irving Boroff described later as "a brotherly, positive way." Student McDougle cried, "Nobody touches my clothes!", shoved Carpenter a little, swore a bit, then ran out of the school to stand bewildered on a street corner. Someone called the cops...
...registers which speeds up supermarket checkouts by 30% was announced by National Cash Register Co. Instead of the usual two or three times that change is counted per transaction (with an average 15% error rate), the new machine registers the change due, tells the clerk how many bills to hand over, send the coins down a chute to the customer. Price...
...PENS IN HAND (360 pp.)-Robert Graves-Doubleday...