Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family in a drawing room for a final chat, then with Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, walked out of the castle onto the closely cropped lawn. As a group of reporters and photographers (admitted to the grounds under a pool arrangement) approached, Ike put his hand on Princess Anne's blonde head. Asked he: "Are you going to learn to cook?" The Queen answered for her daughter: "I'll send you some samples...
...Laos there is not one helicopter. In Samneua-the province in greatest danger of Communist takeover, where an 800-square-mile area is now controlled by Communist rebels-a surrounded paratroop company could not be reinforced by troops waiting to jump in and help; they had no parachutes at hand...
...work well. This summer hundreds of tourists, many of them Americans, flying southeast from Moscow in swift TU-IO4 jets that make the 2,500-mile trip to Tashkent in four hours, have been rewarded with satisfying peeks at these ancient cities, set like "green jewels on a withered hand," in a harsh and little-known land (see color pages...
Died. Roy Wright, 42. at 13 the youngest of the "Scottsboro boys," whose sensational 1931 trial* became a landmark in the struggle for Negro rights; by his own hand (pistol), after killing his wife in a quarrel; in Manhattan...
...took Paul prisoner with a shouted "Hände hoch!" Then it was his own countrymen that Paul worried about; he had to crouch for cover in the midst of an abdominal operation as R.A.F. rocket-firing Typhoons attacked. Writes Paul: "All I could do was keep a firm hand pressed on a swab over the wound to prevent the viscera slipping out of the patient's abdomen...