Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ralph Stutzman, clothed in clerical robe and ego, wants to "come out" of Christianity, presents to earth and heaven the ludicrous spectacle of a man, facing the rock of ages, destruction-bent with peashooter in hand...
...chauvinistic depths. France's right-wing Independents, a vital element in Premier Gaillard's rickety government coalition, promptly repudiated all the concessions which they had agreed to only two weeks before. In the corridors of the National Assembly, there were ominous whispers that the time was at hand for the crise de regime-the final crisis that would bring down the Fourth Republic...
...watch a garage filled with government farm machinery light up the sky. Troops, police and firemen were kept running, but their only captures were 220 sticks of dynamite found hidden under a truckload of vegetables, and a 32-year-old Greek Cypriot who had blown off his own hand with a bomb...
...year, with the termination date written into law. The argument for a temporary cut is that, though reinstatement of any cut might be necessary to fight inflation, no politicos would boost taxes with a presidential election coming up unless it were agreed on in advance. On the other hand, many economists and businessmen favor a tax reduction without any cutoff date, believe that a cut advertised as temporary beforehand might defeat its own purpose. Taxpayers might be reluctant to spend on the basis of a temporary cut, instead save their tax bonus...
Stinger. In Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Perry Hand, 31, admitted that she had put lye in her husband's whisky, explained that she wanted to "make him quit drinking...