Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awards for World War II. The recipients were Staff Sergeant John W. Minick, of Carnegie, Pa., who crawled through a Hurtgen Forest minefield', tackled an entire German company and killed 20 before he fell; and Staff Sergeant Gus Kefurt, of Greenville, Pa., who led his platoon in a hand-to-hand encounter in France, killed 25 Germans before he was cut down by enemy fire. Minick's and Kefurt's Medals of Honor were presented to their widows...
...hand-picked Patton because "for certain types of action [he] was the outstanding soldier our country has produced ..." Patton knew that Ike had saved his hide more than once, wrote to him after the famous soldier-slapping incident: "I am at a loss to find words with which to express my chagrin and grief at having given you, a man to whom I owe everything and for whom I would gladly lay down my life, cause to be displeased with...
...change the Communist fist into the open hand of simulated friendship, as rapidly as Moscow does it, requires not only political spryness but a kind of unabashed acceptance of duplicity and falsehood, so deeply ingrained that it becomes almost a reflex action, like breathing. In Paris last week the Communists, without visible embarrassment, were showing the fist and the open hand at the same time. Reason: the French satraps had been ordered to help along Moscow's new peace offensive, but their old orders to stir up trouble and sabotage EGA had not been canceled. TIME'S Paris...
...into this hand, so unmistakably the limp and clammy hand of an effeminate curate, that little boys were to put theirs trustingly .. . This was the pietistic poseur-the very spit of every disgusting little 'teacher's pet' . . . that we were to take as the earthly evidence of what The Everlasting God is like...
Last week the school board's Committee on Hand Washing and Drying Facilities, formed to look into such matters, made a triumphant report of progress: the city had set aside $100,000 to provide soap and paper towels for 143,000 kindergarten and first-grade pupils. Could the 740,000 other unwashed New York City youngsters, from second grade to senior high, look to a cleaner, brighter future too? Said the committee's secretary guardedly: "We have hopes...