Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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If General Patton had the effrontery to say to the Almighty (who has handed down the commandment "Thou shalt not kill") give me good weather "so that I can annihilate the whole German army with one stroke as a birthday present for Your Prince of Peace" [TIME, Jan. 10], he...
Blue-Ribbon Juries. But even the cool and collected Medina had not been able to keep proceedings on the track. They were still in the pretrial stage when the Communists engineered a legal collision which confounded confusion. They challenged the whole system of picking "blue-ribbon" juries. If they were...
A tiny old woman in black, her eyes glazed with grief, accosted Correspondent Low. She was carrying a bottle of raw, homemade brandy, and a glass. She poured the glass brimfull and handed it to Low. "Ghia tin psychi ton makariti! (Here's to the souls of the dead...
On the day the War Cabinet handed down its decision on the final, watered-down draft, Weizmann was waiting outside in the corridor. Suddenly his friend, Sir Mark Sykes, burst out of the cabinet room waving the Balfour Declaration. "Dr. Weizmann," he cried, "it's a boy." "Well," reminisces...
In Cannes, France, Aly Khan called in reporters and handed around typewritten statements announcing his engagement to Rita Hayworth (he is still married to his first wife; Rita's divorce from Orson Welles became final last November). Said he: "I am going to marry Miss Hayworth as soon as...