Word: hems
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...little girl turned her head over one shoulder and slowly revolved on one heel, as if trying to examine the back of her own frock. She then stooped suddenly, brushed the hem with her hand, and said, "Hullo...
...negotiations with Western Europe's ministers, Acheson had been invariably punctilious and polite. He had argued untiringly, without raising his voice. But in the end, instead of pulling the conference up to his level, he had too frequently let himself be pulled down to the level of his hem-hawing, tiptoeing fellow conferees. And yet, among the North Atlantic nations, the U.S. was the dominant and also the indispensable power; its duty was to lead...
...Hem admires General Omar Bradley and General Joseph Lawton Collins and loves the Army of the United States, but cannot love a chicken division when it is chicken. Love has its limits, but when it is given it is given for keeps though awful things may happen...
Places in the World. Most of her victories were small ones: teaching a mongoloid boy (with a three-year-old's intelligence) to plow a straight furrow; coaxing a few words from a six-year-old who had never spoken; teaching a girl to sew a straight hem or weave a towel. But she also fought for places in the outside world for students she felt were ready, every year sent 15 or 20 out to earn their own way. During World War II she had the satisfaction of seeing a hundred of her "boys" accepted for service...
...saucer" as bulky as six 6-B29s. A prospector in the Cascade Mountains saw six discs that made the needle of his compass gyrate wildly. Little children saw little discs. Two kids in Hamel, Minn, reported that a dull grey disc two feet across had come right down between .hem, hit the ground, spun around, bounced up again making whistling noises, and sped off over the trees...