Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placed on how many benefits a farmer would receive from the Treasury, but this, said Brannan, would really encourage smaller farms; it would hit only the big farms making up 2% of the nation's 5,800,000 farms. Thundered Vermont's Senator George Aiken, an old hand at farm legislation: "It would be a controlled economy with a vengeance...
...cried Charles Witkowski, a candidate for city commissioner on one of the six opposition tickets. A 210-lb. former tackle at Villanova, Witkowski lunged for the box, grabbed it. "I drew it fairly," shouted Clerk Rosengard. "I swear on my family." Other candidates dived in, fought to get a hand on the box to see what made it tick...
Digging by Hand. The drill ran into trouble just short of the 100-ft. mark. In relays, men were lowered by a hoisting bucket to dig the rest of the way by hand. It was grueling work. Dirt and rocks as big as a man's head had to be hoisted up bucket by bucket. Burly Bill Yancey, a 38-year-old sewerage contractor who had been on a wartime underwater demolition team, dug for two hours and 20 minutes before he was hauled...
...research . . . reparations . . . the Ruhr . . . decartelization . . . displaced persons and refugees . . . protection, prestige and security of the occupying forces . . . foreign affairs . . . foreign trade and exchange . . ." In these fields, the three-power agreement provides, on French insistence, that any high commissioner can exercise a veto. The high commissioners may also take a hand in any other matter if they consider it "essential to security or to preserve democratic government in Germany...
When it was over, college students stomped their feet. A few white-haired ladies sat grimly with their hands folded, although most gave Boston-favorite Bernstein a big warm hand. Most could agree with "Koussy" that No. 2 was "real American-extraordinaire...