Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three decades, Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party presided over Puerto Rico's transformation from an impoverished Caribbean stepchild of the U.S. to a commonwealth of increasingly robust economic health. Then, in 1965, Muñoz's hand-picked successor, Roberto Sánchez Vilella, took over. Muñoz, who went into semiretirement as a senator, continued to maintain a jealous watch over the aging party that he had founded. Increasingly irked by his successor's independent ways, he and a coalition of P.D.P. leaders last week denied Sáchez nomination...
Landing on the makeshift "flight deck" is a ticklish operation demanding split-second timing by pilot and boat crew. As a UH-1 chopper hovers over the mini-carrier, the landing area is invisible to the pilot, who must rely on hand signals from one of the boat's seven-man crew. Meanwhile, the boat's captain maneuvers his vessel under the skids of the descending helicopter. The air-sea mating has become a smooth routine. In more than 2,000 landings, there has yet to be a serious mishap...
...evidently had flying experience, opened the unlocked door to the flight deck, clubbed Copilot Maoz Poraz with the butt of his pistol, and slid into a seat behind Captain Oded Abarbanel, ordering a change of course to Algiers. Back in the cabin, his two accomplices brandished pistols and hand grenades in order to keep the frightened passengers in their seats...
...architects often lead the world. Among the examples is the new World Trade Center, now going up in Manhattan: designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Birmingham, Mich., its 110-story aluminum-sheathed twin towers will top the Empire State Building, since 1932 the world's tallest. The steady, disciplined hand of German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 82, soon will show in Washington's pristine, block-long central library. For Oakland, Calif., New Haven-based Kevin Roche has designed a three-tier museum, with the roof of each tier serving as a broad, verdant terrace. Philadelphia's innovative Louis Kahn...
...third and last phase of the service, each participant was told by McGaw to rise, gaze into the eyes of his fellow group members, and "reach out and touch them in any way-a handshake, a hand on a shoulder, even an embrace." After 30 seconds they were to tell each neighbor in the circle "what they honestly admire, respect and perhaps even love in him." McGaw described the touch-and-tell, which was interspersed with appropriate Bible readings, as "a different form of sermon...