Word: handed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discharged by the judge, the eight majority jurors were angry and anxious to tell their story. Several walked over to shake Murphy's hand and congratulate him. His summation, said one juror, Mrs. Helen Sweatt, "was the real turning point of the case." The jury had been eight to four almost from the beginning. The leader of the holdouts for acquittal had been Foreman James-the man whom Murphy had singled out. But, said one juror, all twelve had agreed on two facts: that the documents were typed on the Hiss machine and that it was in the Hiss...
...squinting stare and a contemptuous disregard for human life. By 1930, he was an accomplished journeyman killer on the staff of mobster Dutch Schultz. In 1938, Boss Joe Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association (A.F.L.) put Sheridan on his staff of waterfront goons working with another hired hand, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn...
Refusal to recognize a Chinese Communist government, for instance, would be an inane gesture if the general Asiatic policy was to be one of drifting with the Communist tide. On the other hand, recognition would be hypocritical if the general policy was to begin active resistance to communism in Asia...
...other hand, a policy of active resistance to communism in Asia is hard to envisage because it is so remote from U.S. political experience. It would be much more difficult than U.S. anti-Communist strategy for Europe as worked out in the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic pact...
Helen Hayes stuck a hand into her deep freezer, pulled it out too late to avoid a smashed thumb when the lid banged down...