Word: hand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, it is easy to be conciliatory when you already have the upper hand, and the Alumni Association's sudden switch may be more rooted in their newfound confidence that they have gained the advantage than in any real goodwill...
...hand on him to direct him to leave," said Hillman, who suffered a severe concussion and was hospitalized overnight. The thief fled with the cash box, which contained $500, according to the police report...
...Most of these proposals have been designed to affect NATO deterrence capability while leaving Soviet nuclear weapons intact," Fitzwater said. "On the other hand, we do appreciate the intent of this and if it can develop into something concrete, why, that might be a hopeful sign...
Later Hine worked for nearly a decade taking pictures of child laborers, sometimes gulling suspicious mill owners into thinking he was there to photograph their machinery, all the while keeping one hand in his pocket for clandestine note taking. He saw his pictures as evidence, "photographic proof" that would move public opinion to demand laws to remove children from factories. His data would be the grime written upon their young faces; his evidence would be the weariness in their eyes...
...past decade, places long closed to the lens have opened up. Some American courtrooms admitted cameras for the first time. So did a few long-sealed precincts of life in the Soviet Union. But there were other spots where, at various times, the lens was met by an official hand raised to cover it: The Iran-Iraq war, the West Bank, the black townships of South Africa and the killing ground of Tiananmen Square. News photographers were banned from the U.S. invasion of Grenada. Soviet bombers fractured Afghan villages away from public view...