Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order from the general, an orderly brought yellow pears, as large as grapefruit. As we ate, the general traced the Central China battle on the palm of his hand. Twelve miles eastward his old comrade, Lieut. General Huang Po-tao, was encircled in an area 3½ miles in diameter around the rail town of Nienchuang. In eleven days of fighting Huang had lost 40,000 troops. From his position north of the Lunghai railway, General Li was punching east to relieve Huang. In a parallel position south of the railway, Lieut. General Chiu Ching-chuan's Second Army...
...favorite drink at Williams is a Purple Passion (gin plus "anything else behind the bar that's not quite finished off"). Princeton's drink is the Sea Breeze (which also begins with gin, then gets out of hand). At Yale, a girl can get away with "two suits and two dressy dresses"; at Cornell, she should have a fall suit, a cocktail dress, a sweater & skirt, an evening dress, walking shoes, dancing shoes, an evening wrap and a warm coat...
...Task. Last fortnight, in the operating room, Elizabeth was given only local anesthesia; she had to guide Surgeon Penfield's hands by telling him of her sensations. At one point she said: "I feel as though my left hand were moving but it isn't moving." During the eight-hour operation the surgeons took out about two square inches of damaged brain...
...grain. With the biggest crop in history piling up, much of it was without storage and therefore ineligible for Government loans, a form of price support. If private traders took over EGA buying, they would be likely to buy stored grain, pass over the other grain. On the other hand, CCC may be able to buy the unstored grain and ship it out before farmers have to sell it below support levels...
...what you would expect in a second-rate comic opera. A proper Bostonian (Sinatra) arrives in Spanish-owned California to take over an inn and a gang of bandits inherited from his father. The rootin'-tootin' father had been bored with innkeeping, but he was a great hand at banditry and kissing the women he robbed. The son is a shaky beanpole who falls off his horse at the drop of a hoof. He is afraid of guns and women, but anxious to see that the inn has plenty of clean sheets and towels...