Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Base, Md. last week-and there he was. There on American soil was Nikita Khrushchev, short, bald and portly, wearing a black suit, Homburg and three small medals, bowing down the receiving line, accepting a 21-gun salute, parading past a guard of honor. There on his one hand stood his pleasant, shy wife Nina Petrovna, his daughters Julia, 38, and Rada, 29, his studious-looking son Sergei, 24, and a retinue of 63 officials and bureaucrats. There on his other hand stood President Eisenhower. "Permit me at this moment to thank Mr. Eisenhower for the invitation," Khrushchev said...
...Khrushchev's big jet swept into Los Angeles International Airport 5 hr. 27 min. later, sat down with a bounce. He padded down the bright aluminum ramp, his light-colored suit flapping, looked detached and almost dubious about leaving the plane. Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson stepped forward, handed out what was perhaps the briefest official greeting a U.S. city has ever given a visiting chief of state. Said Poulson: "We welcome you to Los Angeles, City of the Angels, the city where the impossible always happens." Khrushchev, who had the text of an arrival speech in his hand...
...have clarified that. I trust that even mayors read." The crowd gave Khrushchev a laugh and a round of applause. "In our country," Khrushchev went on, "chairmen of councils who do not read the press risk not being re-elected." The crowd gave Khrushchev another big hand; two-time Mayor Poulson turned crimson. Then Khrushchev went on: "Ladies and gentlemen, you want to get up on this favorite horse of yours and proceed in the same old direction. If you want continuation of the arms race, then, very well, we accept that challenge. And as for the output...
...civilians who ever came to work in the five-ring circus of the Pentagon, none was more roundly disliked as a matter of principle than handsome, brainy Wilfred James McNeil. The reason was understandable enough: McNeil, hand-picked in 1947 by Defense Secretary James Forrestal to be the new National Military Establishment's first comptroller, had the job of supervising the drawing up and spending of the defense budget. He was the man who had to slice the budgetary pie among the three services-each of which naturally wanted the biggest piece -and then explain and defend the budget...
...began to read the painful scrawl: "Please do not get excite over this order I'm giving you. In this suitcase you see in my hand is fill to the top with high explosive. I mean high high . . . I do not believe I can kill and not kill what is around me, and I mean my son will go too . . . Please do not make me push this button that all I have...