Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Steelworkers are entitled to a just wage increase and other fringe benefits owing to their greater dexterity, improved efficiency, and increased productivity per man-hour per pound of steel produced. On the other hand, the steel industry is entitled to a just return on investment per dollar...
With the judge's pronouncement came a loud, long cheer from the crowd. Earl Long, smiling thinly, his near-cadaverous hulk worn down from 203 lbs. to 162 lbs., pushed his way through the throng. Voices shouted greetings. Hands clapped his back, shook his hand, reached out from all directions. Flanked by his pals and deputies, he advanced through the tumult to his car. A newsman asked: "What are you going to do now, Governor?" Growled Earl Long: "I'm gonna be Governor...
...leap" policy had been a fiasco, botched by bad planning, and straining fields, farmers and transport. Red China had already sheepishly begun to retreat from its propaganda claims when providentially the government found a way to shift much of the blame: nature this spring took a cruel hand in China, as it so often has before. While flooding rains fell over huge chunks of Central China, the provinces of Kirin and Hopei were parched by drought. In Szechwan, a force of 40 million Chinese was working desperately to keep a wheat crop, badly weakened by unseasonably warm weather...
...opens up a pathway to the sea," Masefield went on, and that was the meaning of the occasion when the Queen of Canada extended a welcoming hand...
When he considered his right-hand punch, Ingemar Johansson spoke in terms of muted and mystical awe that such a thing could be. "The arm works by itself," said he. "It is faster than the eye. When I hit any man, he cannot stand...