Word: hand
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Paint cans and sponges in hand, and careful to use my shoulder rather than my wrist, I attacked the first wall with Sherwin-Williams gloss, trying for a flatheaded confrontation. There was something monumentally upsetting in the result; it was a chaos of raw emotion. The militant playfulness marking the first attack gave way to a scarifying vitality, almost flamelike, leaping forth and savagely sideways marking the spot where my youngest son had rubbed his backside across the wet wall. I charged on to the next one, which allowed for the incorporation of empty space, i.e., the doorway leading...
...fedayeen. As Hussein's popularity slips, that of the commandos rises, presenting the King with a tough choice. If he decides to throw in his lot with the commandos, he risks severe retaliation from Israel, and a fourth round of war becomes a distinct possibility. On the other hand, any attempt on his part to crush the fedayeen would almost certainly result in his overthrow. Commando Chief Yasser Arafat has pledged privately not to move against Hussein-but only so long as the fedayeen continue to have freedom of action within Jordan...
...DEMANDS now before the Faculty are neither extreme nor, by their very wording, nonnegotiable. Clarification and negotiation will come hand in hand. Since all the demands deal with questions which the Faculty has debated and researched, it is not being asked to take any hasty steps, but merely to give powerful voice to an increasingly wide consensus and to represent that consensus before the Corporation...
These inadequacies in the election procedures that have been established for the special committee are not serious if the aim is merely to produce a number of people to make an objective investigation of the facts of a situation. These same inadequacies, on the other hand, must be considered very serious if the resulting body is to be expected to make a decision on a political issue such as punishment. So much so that it is hard to escape the conclusion that the irregular student representation on a committee comprised of a two-thirds Faculty majority is merely a token...
Keen academicians who have traced student travail from Berkeley to Columbia to the Quadrangle at Harvard, unofficially agree that the moment of truth is at hand--if Harvard frays then the entire U.S. university fabric could unravel...