Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warm reception from huge noontime crowds in the Loop. During his 45-minute ride through the heart of the city, confetti poured from office buildings. Signs screamed VIVA NIXON and DUMP HUMP-NIXON'S THE ONE. People jumped through police lines to shake the candidate's hand. While the excitement hardly matched a Robert Kennedy happening, Nixon, like Kennedy before him, suffered a scratched wrist and lost a cuff link to eager grasps...
...offered the job first to John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who declined because he feels committed to continue as chief of the Urban Coalition. New York City Mayor John Lindsay could have had the Senate appointment for the asking, but refused to go hat in hand to Rockefeller...
...crashers, 250 members of the mounted Guarda Nacional Republicana were on hand at the Quinta do Vinagre: inside, 200 blue-liveried servants passed around flutes of champagne and a midnight snack of lobster salad. All night, the local Portuguese crowded to get a closer look at Gina Lollobrigida in a plunging pink ballgown, the Begum Aga Khan's colossal diamond necklace and Sukarno's ex-wife Ratna Sari Dewi in a tight red gown. Someone remembered that it was Henry Ford II's 51st birthday, and everyone sang "Happy Birthday, dear Henry," while he blew...
After almost an hour of such persuasion, Dr. Pone got Mitchell to open the door a crack and accept a bottle of milk for the child. The psychology was working. Soon, Mitchell meekly opened the door of his cubicle, put his pistol in Pone's hand and emerged with the unharmed child in his arms...
...report cancer-type changes caused by a radioactive ring. When a man had a cameo ring remodeled in 1946, the jeweler inserted a piece of "new" gold. After ten years, the man had so much discomfort on his left ring finger that he transferred the ring to his right hand. Eight years later, that finger also was irritated and inflamed, so he stopped wearing the ring. Too late. This year, the left ring finger had to be amputated for cancer...