Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when General Palffy, resplendent in dress uniform and riding a white horse, reviewed his troops in Hero's Square. "Good morning, comrades," Palffy had shouted. A thousand voices answered "Good morning, Comrade General." Palffy had drawn his saber to salute the flag. The saber slipped out of his hand, clattered to the ground...
...Society, Acheson restated the State Department's firm opposition to filibustering expeditions like those of the Caribbean Legion against Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Such plots, he noted, "have in themselves been inconsistent with our common commitments not to intervene in each other's affairs . . ." On the other hand he answered critics of the State Department's prompt recognition of military regimes in Peru and Venezuela. Recognition, he said, "need not be taken to imply approval" either of the regimes or their policies. The U.S. stands firmly for democracy and for non-intervention in its neighbors' business...
...Louis. But he is not an M.D., and so is not allowed to treat patients or see them professionally unless a cooperative doctor leads them into Somogyi's office for consultation. But, "looking over the shoulders of physicians," as he puts it, Somogyi has had a hand in treating 4,000 new cases of diabetes in the last 14 years. He has also been consulted in 300 to 400 other cases which had been previously "mismanaged" (by his standards) by other doctors...
...helpless Fusari and save him from further mayhem, just 56 seconds before the fight was scheduled to end. In his dressing room, triumphant Rocky climbed upon a table the better to see and be seen by the mob of reporters and photographers that crowded around. Crowed Rocky, waving a hand for silence: "Don't I do a job on those welterweights? . . . especially salamis from Jersey, who are my special meat...
...again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...