Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along China's turgid riverbanks gongs were ringing. Their summons brought villagers running through the wet darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...
Ernest Hemingway, on the other hand, had one of the "most provocative faces in the world," declared the Artists League of America. Other faces that moved the league to exclamations of wonder: Hirohito's ("provokes pity") and Cinemactress Ava Gardner's ("provokes libido"). Hemingway's face, said the artists, "provokes annoyance...
...tall (6 ft.) and thin (146 Ibs.), like the hand of a stopwatch. His toothpick legs must be pampered; he ran seven races in two days last year and pulled a hamstring muscle. Although a chronic worrywart, Patton usually manages to control his worrying. In his crowded schedule there are special times for fretting, just as there are set times to go to classes at the University of Southern California and a set time to be home for dinner (he has a wife and two-year-old daughter). The proof of Patton's iron control under pressure...
Cripples and invalids came. "My discovery," Brown proclaimed, "will increase the life span of man to 120 years. Don't worry. My cell also extends the sexual life of man ... It will make old women feel like kittens, and old men potent. I can shake the hand of an asthmatic," said Brown, "and he will be well...
...Wyoming, gold in the Philippines, manages real estate in North Kansas City, New York City and Beverly Hills, runs railroads, buses and bridges in the Middle West. One of its biggest holdings is Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., bought from the Rockefellers. All told, the companies Allen has a guiding hand in have a net worth of above $200 million, net $15 to $20 million a year profit. Allen does not look for immediate earnings but for long-term capital gains. Its income from banking and shrewd investing is big enough to keep the four working partners (three of them...