Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders continued to rule the city with a trembling iron hand. Firing squads continued public executions of fifth columnists, black marketeers and other culprits. On outlying roads, hundreds of laborers sweated to throw up machine-gun emplacements and earthworks. In the confusion, however, many of the earthworks were built facing not the Communists, but one another...
Winston Churchill sent a little bread-&-butter present, delivered by hand by daughter Sarah, to Bernard Baruch, his host on his recent U.S. trip (TIME, April 4): a 24-by-36-inch Winston Churchill watercolor landscape...
Into the Black. Sancton set about speeding up the Journal's four pages, which for years, unrelieved by photos or even headlines, had been padded with boiler plate and fillers. In Vermont, he bought a second-hand linotype machine to set a cleaner column in a fraction of the four hours it had taken the Journal's printer to hand set one. He brightened Page One with newsy photographs and headlines (one big March story: JOHN C. HOLLAND LAID TO REST). In his English car, Editor Sancton made the rounds of his borderline beat, hunting for stories...
...room. Such behavior has sometimes led irreverent outsiders to suspect that the societies do nothing at all, except make mysteries of themselves, behind the bronze doors and windowless walls of their New Haven "tombs." But it has never prevented Yale juniors from hoping that they too will feel a hand fall on their shoulders at the traditional tap day each spring. To be one of the 15 men elected each year to each of Yale's six societies is still the ultimate in campus recognition...
...Captain of Governor Warren. "I always figured he'd get farther on his personality than his legal knowledge . . .") They all learned what the Captain was after. He loathed the traditional law-school curriculum in which each course is a separate package, bound by the particular textbook cases at hand. He wanted to force a student to draw upon his entire knowledge of law. For all their sufferings, his students never regretted the hours they spent under the peppery little man who insisted that they look beyond their case books and think for themselves...