Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Warning. Shocked at the quick desiccation of the wartime Army after the armistice of 1918, recalling the agonizing bloodletting of American doughboys who had gone to war ill prepared, Colonel Marshall argued bitterly against the prospect of more unpreparedness. Fatefully, when the first flames of the new European conflict...
At week's end, in a naked bid for the support of the New Kenya Party, the government announced that henceforth African land boards would no longer be allowed to bar land sales to white farmers on racial grounds. And if it chose, the government could almost certainly push...
Until last summer. Pianist de Groot was a two-handed recitalist of solid international reputation. Then, during a recording session, he felt a sudden cramp in his right hand, was barely able to finish playing Liszt's Melancholy Waltz. Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither...
In the meantime, De Groot is filling out his concert season with old standbys, e.g., the Brahms version of Bach's Violin Chaconne, which he played last week to critical huzzahs on the Dutch radio. He is also rearranging pieces by Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, Rachmaninoff. And if the day...
On the face of the evidence, it was hard to see why Master Butcher Albert Roden, 50, chief defendant in last week's trial of "the King of German Cattle Thieves," had ever turned to rustling at all. For years, his butcher shop on Düsseldorf's...