Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer army. "I interpreted that at first to be the end of everybody being equally responsible for the country's welfare," says David. "I mean, you hear a lot of guys talking about how they are being excluded from the political process and on the other hand saying that it is in the national interest, as they have defined it, for them not to be drafted...
...Senate. Teddy Kennedy came back at a poignant and appropriate moment. After the gunshot killings of Bobby and Martin Luther King, the Johnson Administration drew up gun-control legislation that went considerably beyond an earlier law that forbade the mail-order sale of revolvers and automatics. Chin cradled in hand, Ted Kennedy last week watched the Senate debate that measure...
Chain-Letter Effect. Those lines have not been published in the Soviet Union. But they are nonetheless read and passed from hand to hand in samiz-dat,* the readers' answer to Soviet censorship. Manuscripts are copied and recopied laboriously by typewriter, since any mechanical reproduction, even mimeograph...
...Brutal Showdown. Recently, dissenters in Russia have sounded the alarm that a return to mass terror is at hand. So far, however, the leaders have confined themselves to selective terror in an attempt to silence the most outspoken writers and intellectuals and to curb their influence on public opinion. Still, the regime finds itself in an impossible dilemma. Without a return to mass police terror, new voices will be raised in dissent as soon as others are stilled. But the regime knows too that the cost of restoring Stalin's terror would be incalculably high. It would reverse the effect...
Lilac Coif. Three of the most diverting larger pictures are by anonymous masters. The Prato Master is responsible for an exuberant Birth of the Virgin, in which graceful Florentine ladies foreshadow those in a similar scene by Ghirlandaio. The ironic hand of The Master of the Cloister of the Orange Trees can be seen in two scenes from the life of St. Benedict...