Word: handly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hand Signals. In Tokyo, after questioning two pickpocket suspects for half an hour without getting one answer, police discovered that both were deaf and dumb...
...evening so that he would not be late for dinner with the President. Two days later he flew from New York to Moscow in the Boeing jetliner that set a new speed record. There he dogged the steps of Richard Nixon, was so close at hand so much of the time that at one point in the historic "kitchen summit" at the U.S. exhibition, Nikita Khrushchev swung around, mistook Charlie for an official member of the party, and heartily pumped his hand in fine Nixon-Kefauver fashion. After filing his reports for the cover story in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Correspondent Mohr...
With one sweep of the politician's practiced eye, Nixon sized up the situation: he was clearly getting the cool hello. On hand was a little group of welcomers from the U.S. embassy led by Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, and the 56 U.S. newsmen who had preceded Nixon by an hour in a record-setting (8 hr. 45 min.), nonstop flight in a new, long-legged Boeing 707 from New York. The face of the Soviet Union was the familiar grin...
...translated into English so Americans could understand him. Nixon promised that it would be and-the good lawyer-said quickly: "By the same token, everything that I say will be recorded and translated and carried all over the Soviet Union. That's a bargain." Khrushchev swung his hand in a high, wide arc and literally slapped it into Nixon's to seal the agreement...
About 50 Japanese have been declared to be "living cultural assets." Among them are Kabuki and no actors, potters and painters, and even a couple of old folks who know how to do Kurume-gasuri, a rare, 150-year-old hand-weaving process using white cotton threads and blue dye to produce unique dappled patterns. Tomikichi Moriyama, 70, and his wife Toyono, 67, hand weavers, were delighted with the honor when it came two years ago. After all, only ten other weavers in Japan-most now too old for work-knew Kurume-gasuri] the Moriyamas' son Torao, like most...