Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands were steady. He often gestured, sometimes smacking one fist into his other palm. Twice he had coughing bouts and picked up small squares of gauze to daub his lips. He used no notes, charts or maps and talked through the entire hour and 50 minutes. He was informed and up to date, moving the discussion through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He dwelt on the major forces at work, the people and events, his concern about the Soviet Union. If his mouth would not always obey his commands, the Americans detected nothing wrong with his mind...
...Michael Palm, a proctor living in Hurlbut, said yesterday the major source of discontent is the Union dorms' general state of disrepair. "The dorms are old and very poorly kept up," he said...
Several students in the dorms agreed yesterday with Palm's observations, citing instances of long waits for requested repairs...
...getting a little far afield, I know, but I got a point to make: here's a nice island, see, where it's warm all the time and you can just sort of lie around under the palm trees and you don't have to worry about Christmas or any of that stuff at all. I mean, I've never been there myself, but I think I've got as good an idea as the next guy about what the general situation is down there. Take my brother-in-law, for example. When he was in the Navy...
...sorry governor-general, I didn't know it was you. Go right on. So the governor-general probably takes out this Jensen Interceptor--this is the picture I have, see--late at night sometimes, and hauls along the beach where the sand is flat and hard, past the palm trees, watching the waves break, mayby making 110, 120. It's just a nice thing to think about, you know, not that it's important or anything. It's not important. God knows why people are always asking me about this, because what do I know. It's like...