Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman. "We both came into office without an election," he said, "and we both replaced men who had wide experience and . . . success in winning elections. Mr. Truman has had his acid test, and I am facing mine ... I am here to try to find out, at first hand, Mr. Truman's secret...
Last week at a meeting in Chicago of 250 of its leaders, the A.M.A. finally swung into action. Hired to run the new education campaign was Clem Whitaker, a stem-winding San Francisco public relations man. An old hand at fighting government-in-medicine (with his pert partner-wife, Leone Baxter, he led the successful California fight against Governor Earl Warren's compulsory insurance plan in 1945), Clem said what the medical brass wanted to hear: "The doctors of this country are in the front lines today [of] a basic struggle between ... socialism and private initiative . . . Oscar Ewing, that...
Louis gives the back of his hand to the latest variety of jazz, bebop (or bop). The boppers, who know the way he feels, tend to speak of him in the past tense. "Nowadays," says Negro Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, "we try to work out different rhythms and things that they didn't think about when Louis Armstrong blew. In his day all he did was play strictly from the soul-just strictly from his heart. You got to go forward and progress. We study...
...partisan joy as Willie built up a lead on points. Then the fight became a slugging match as the 126-pounders threw everything they had. Saddler had Pep reeling drunkenly in the tenth round; another good punch would have been the end of Willie. But wily Willie, a shrewd hand and a good boxer, hung on, dodged, shook loose the cobwebs between rounds. Just before the bell ended the 15th, Pep was in trouble again; as he ducked a punch he sagged, momentarily helpless, against the ropes. Saddler swayed toward him-trying to find strength for just one more swing...
Though housewives were delighted, businessmen, remembering the 1920 collapse, worried that the commodity slump might get out of hand. Though stock prices fell again last week, putting the Dow-Jones industrials below their post-election lows, there were few other signs of a widespread price drop. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' general index of wholesale prices (food, metals, textiles, etc.) had changed little in a month. The storm, as yet, had blown only on the farms...