Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone knew Mary Lou was feeling all right. She had always relied more on her piano than her personality, and this time, bobbing to the beat with an impish smile, she was giving them everything-boogie-beat, bop-beat ("You don't hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land...
...spent, and even then Lustron's success was uncertain. If RFC refused the new loan, the $37.5 million lent was down the drain. While RFC waited for a suggestion from Congress, Lustron made some savings. It laid off 600 workers, partly because it had some 400 houses on hand and wanted to sell them before producing any more...
After the local doctor had tried his few remedies on the girls ("physics" made no difference), he weightily declared that "The evil hand is on them." With these chilling words the witch-hunt began...
...Torments You?" Once the devil's hand was suspected, a group of ministers-in-conclave queried the girls: "Who torments you?" At first, they did not know. Only after a dish of "witch cake" (a blend of rye meal and the sufferers' urine baked in ashes) was fed to a dog, were their tongues loosened. Betty Parris named Tituba; the others also accused a village tramp and a matron who did not attend church regularly...
...almost anything in World War II, from picking up bedroom gossip in Lisbon to sieving through trade statistics in Washington, and almost anybody with a college degree could get into the intriguing act. But when the army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...