Word: hems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such songs as Twist and Shout and Love Me Do into the din of the tough Merseyside pubs. Now they earn $5,000 a week playing one-night stands all over Britain. Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats sported onstage by all four of them...
...block?and even as the cops plunged into the church, some enraged Negroes began throwing rocks at them. Rescue workers found a seven-foot pyramid of bricks where once the girls' bathroom stood. On top was a child's white lace choir robe. A civil defense captain lifted the hem of the robe. "Oh, my God," he cried. "Don't look!" Beneath lay the mangled body of a Negro girl...
...seems a model of quiet courtesy. He directs them to American Express and Thomas Cook with a debonair salute; he guides gladiatorial traffic with a calm nonchalance. Frenchmen look on le flic quite differently. Apart from their dislike of taking orders from anyone, they know that frequently in the hem of his natty blue cape is sewn enough buckshot to break a man's-and sometimes a woman's-nose. They have seen him wading into a crowd flailing a 6-ft. riot cane like a scythe...
...lost his nerve''), operates on the principle that "you should have 10% more money available than you think you'll need." He also has a special Oetker recipe for handling financiers. "These bankers are a peculiar group," he explains. "They come over for a surprise visit, hem and haw awhile, take a good look to see if all the pictures are still hanging on the walls and then go away happy...
...After the plane incident, President Kennedy made clear that "U.S. armed forces will employ all means necessary for their own protection," but at his press conference he insisted, "I think it would be a mistake to invade Cuba." Are there Russian troops in Cuba? asked a newsman. From the hem and haw of his response, Kennedy seemed to be working from abysmally poor intelligence reports. "We don't have cornplete information about what's going on in Cuba,"he said.* Itwas an explanation that satisfied no one. On Capitol Hill, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating...