Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the union's executive board accused him of bringing his beloved Woodworkers "into discredit," fired him despite an appeal from his $1,700-a-year job, said he could hold no union job for ten months. Kennedy said he had kept his hand in at carpentering, but feared no one would hire him; he had a brother and a widowed mother to support. Said he truculently: "I am convinced that my dismissal is part of the campaign against the Communists...
Rude Pravo also deplored marriage bureaus, "used on the one hand, by doctors, directors or rich pensioners (factory owners have lost their attraction) and on the other hand by women with suitable dowries or widows with furniture." These bureaus were still legal, but, as Rude Pravo put it, "we can't correct everything at once...
...Olechny lost two fingers of his right hand fighting the Bolsheviks in Poland after World War I. When the Polish government rewarded him with a 75-acre farm, he thought he was settled for life; the farthest he and wife Josepha ever got from their farm was nearby Pinsk. But during World War II the Olechnys, like millions of others who had thought they were settled for life, started wandering. They covered more ground than most...
Sometimes in the course of a lecture, Conant grows excited about a point, paces about his platform restlessly. But he will stop for any hand that is raised, answer any question. After class he never rushes away, but chats or answers questions for as long as his students wish. "When he says 'Come around and see me,' " said one student, "he really means it- though I imagine he has plenty of other things to do." For Conant himself, such professorial demands are a pleasure. "Anybody who enjoys teaching," he says, "enjoys returning to teaching...
Here are 28 stories which Miss Martha Foley, an old hand at editing this sort of anthology, says are the best of the past year. Perhaps they are the best; they are still not very good. Yet it is probable that if another editor had chosen them they would be neither much better nor greatly different. For these stories accurately reflect the work of the younger and more "serious" postwar writers...