Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many simply slid down the wet decks into the water. Women screamed for their children. People careened along the corridors toward the lifeboat stations. A man who was helping his fellow passengers, Ian MacDonald, later reported that he worked with one hand grabbing the rail "and the other grasping hands, shoulders, legs and even hair to stop tumbling bodies." As the huge ship started sinking, those who could get aboard lifeboats rowed furiously away. Others tried to swim for it. One crewman jumped in with a child under each arm. In the icy waters, mothers cradled their babies in life...
Pindling has also more than doubled government spending on education ($10.6 million this year) and has commissioned a long-range economic plan by Puerto Rican Consultant Teodoro Moscoso, the guiding hand behind Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" and a key organizer of the Alliance for Progress. Another Pindling achievement was ordering salaries for legislative and Cabinet members, thus eliminating the old system of fat "consultant's fees"-really payoffs and bribes-that flourished among the United Bahamian Party's government officials (TIME, Sept...
...that the briefcase portable-really a miniaturized car phone-is difficult to use. The user pushes a row of eleven buttons, one after another, until he finds an open channel (on a busy channel, he can overhear the conversation). He then holds down a transmission switch on the hand set and gives the mobile operator his call, which is completed over regular telephone lines. Incoming calls are announced by a buzzer and a light...
...bomb shelters, he reports, "their little faces fell." He explained: "Look, you may not have any confidence in U.S. assurances that it will not hit population centers, but I do." Collingwood had no difficulties with the three bureaucrats assigned to escort him, but the North Vietnamese did hand-pick his cameraman, French Freelancer Roger Pic, who had done several sympathetic films. Collingwood also notes that "naturally, they took me to bomb sites" and trotted out survivors to stare...
...Little Cash. Last week Lytton's empire was teetering on the edge of a financial crisis that could well lead to its founder's ouster. With $2,800,000 in debts coming due by May 1, Lytton Financial found itself with too little cash on hand or in sight to repay its creditors. The company owes $1,600,000 to the United Automobile Workers Union on a note bearing a payment date that has already been postponed from April 2 to April 25. It owes another $1,200,000 to a group of institutional investors, including Investors Stock...