Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attended wearing his best hand-painted necktie and cowboy boots; after laying aside his cigar and taking off his coat, he spent an hour waving his hamlike hands beneath the noses of railroad lawyers, buttering up the commissioners and discussing the greatness of Texas...
...week's end, the commission ordered the railroad to go on stopping at Electra until it could examine all evidence and hand down a permanent ruling. Mayor Moore was jubilant-he was certain that no man in his right mind would vote to make the biggest little town in Texas a whistle stop...
...even in this scene, the country was in ferment. The "bloodless revolution" was in full swing. Just two years ago, the Diet passed Japan's new constitution. MacArthur himself had written the first draft in his clear, old-fashioned hand. It reduced the Emperor from godhead to symbol, abolished the feudal aristocracy, gave the Diet genuine power to make laws, guaranteed popular liberties, decreed sex equality, renounced the nation's right to make war, even for self-defense. It contained such alien concepts as "public servants" (ancient custom made bureaucrats responsible only to the Throne) and "pursuit...
...paved the way for land reform; the estates of the old gentry had been bought and resold to 5,000,000 new, small, independent holders. It had given Japanese politics a new look; at parliamentary elections for the first time in history, candidates for office had gone hat in hand to solicit votes from ordinary folk...
...Although he will be 70 next year, Douglas MacArthur has lost none of the West Pointer's bearing. For the past 34 years, he never missed a day's duty because of illness. In his plainly furnished office, he works seven days a week, composing directives by hand (he does not like to dictate) and buzzing for his aides when he wants them (he has banned telephones from his desk). He looks fit and much younger than his years; his hair, flecked with grey, is usually carefully brushed to cover a bald spot. The General lives sedately with...