Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient's disability, e.g., woodworking may be indicated because the bicycle saw used exercises the leg muscles in a special way; or painting because the canvas serves as a medium for the mental patient to express feelings he can't put into words. On the other hand, a patient may be given contract work (at union rates) under the supervision of an occupational therapist. The real-work type of O.T. is practiced here as well as in the Soviet Union, contrary to TIME'S implication. HELEN S. WILLARD, O.T.R. President American Occupational Therapy Association Philadelphia...
...years, some of Teviston's leaders dreamed of digging a deep well and creating a water district of their own, but cash and hope were scarce. Then, five years ago, Field Hand James Morning, Farmer John Williams and Missionary Baptist Preacher Robert Daniels began talking up the idea. They got Bard McAllister, a representative of the American Friends Service Committee, to come over from Visalia to help. For four years McAllister worked and argued with the people, tried to explain how a community effort could bring running water into their homes...
...blocks back to his paper. He settled into his chair on the third floor of the Times building on 43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched immediately by the impatient copy desk-he delivered his judgment ("inherently hopeless'') on Goodbye Charlie, the comedy he had just seen. Within an hour, the Times's presses were reproducing an appraisal that would be read respectfully, not only by those...
...blight the Southern Hemisphere. Outwardly at least, the survivors keep a stiff upper lip about what is going to happen. They go to work in the morning, beach in the afternoon, pub at night. Soon, the drinking begins to get a bit heavier, the sex a bit out of hand...
...discussed setting identical prices for hundreds of implements, chiefly for gardening, such as rakes, shovels, picks, trowels, sidewalk scrapers and sod lifters. With other parties to the agreements (who got immunity to testify for the Government), the defendants controlled 60% to 80% of the nation's $50 million hand implement business...