Word: hand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents to buy a piano. Roberts' mother was a gospel singer, his father a longshoreman, and it was no easy thing to come by money. At first young Marcus taught himself, and after a year he was good enough to play in church. He played with one hand or the other, but still hadn't figured out how to make both work together. "Horrible hand position," he remembers. At twelve, he started to take formal lessons in doing what came naturally...
...draw in the listener: the more intrepid the music, the more insistent it seems about sealing itself off. Roberts' gift is to keep connected to past masters like Monk while extending the music's possibilities -- and its audience -- into the future with a light and open hand. Bump...
...article in the People's Daily described Liu as a "black hand" and criticized him as a "Westerntrained" intellectual, Zhao said...
...voters to demand at least two more weeks to insure proper time to study and discuss the contract. Barring that, we urged a "No" vote as the only way to keep discussion of the contract going. The statement was completed by the evening of June 27, and distribution by hand to union members was begun at once...
...this year: exhausted workers struggling to scoop up a noxious tide of inky goo. A major cleanup campaign was under way once again last week in three different spots in the U.S.: the Delaware River, Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay and the Houston Ship Channel. Crews were deploying rakes, hand-held skimmers, oversize absorbent pads and "supersucker" vacuums to scoop up the oil spilled in the accidents. While all the slicks were much smaller than the 10.5 million-gal. spill of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March, the timing of the latest mishaps, which all ! occurred within a twelve...