Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot and Mrs. Brine's motive in being with Rivera was, of course, to get to know him and his work at first hand. In the process they underwent a thorough lecture course on mural painting and on pre-Cortesian sculpture. Rivera showed them hundreds of his sculptures, one by one, and stood for hours on end while he explained his archaeological theories. He also accompanied them on a trip to see his murals. After a long, silent examination of one of them Rivera turned and said: "I haven't seen this mural since I painted...
Shouted Playwright Clifford Odets, whose The Big Knife is doing a brisk business on Broadway: "I am proud to reach out and shake the hand of any man or woman who has the courage to appear here ... If I speak here Sunday, I may be without a job Monday. The country is a little in the state of unholy terror from coast to coast...
...call and pleaded: "Do not shut the door of hope in the faces of those old men who fought World War I." As the ayes and nays of the final roll call droned on, the House was so tensely quiet that the click of the clerk's mechanical hand-counter was audible in the galleries. By a single vote, 208 to 207, the House had finally dredged up the courage to kill the bill...
...hundred-odd spectators watched. Six lawyers for the defense hunched over their tables, facing the bench. Judge Medina began to rock, holding his hand to his face. McGohey rose to outline the Government's case to the jury of twelve and its four alternate members...
President Conant will extend greetings and congratulations to Killian, following his inauguration, on behalf of Harvard and the Universities of America. A host of other leaders in education, technology, religion, and government will be on hand for the ceremonies...