Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from quite a few friends in the U.S. with a certain amount of biting comment, which I would gladly accept if it had been my fault. However, I enclose an eyewitness report (American), and in view of that, I don't think it is fair to write as you did, as it apparently gives me the reputation...
Castillo Armas promised elections, first for an assembly to write a new constitution, and later for the presidency. Running the risk of uniformed criticism, he deprived the country's illiterates of the vote. Trucking unlettered Indians to the polls and showing them where to put the cross has long been the favorite way of Guatemalan Presidents, including Arbenz and his dictatorial predecessors, of getting into office or staying there. In refusing ballots to citizens who cannot read or write, Castillo Armas freely surrendered a traditional weapon for keeping power...
...Guns. Both had been moderately successful songwriters individually and admirers of each other's work. Both could write both words and music. A large part of their collaboration, they discovered after getting together, turned on a spontaneous veto-rule: one of them would suggest an idea for a lyric or hum a snatch of melody; if the other actively opposed it, out it went without argument. Some days, when working to a deadline, they might draft all but the last eight bars of a song, and each go home to dream up his own solution. After that, a song...
...songs for Veteran Producer George Abbott ("one of the most frightening experiences we ever had"), and last fall, after three years of hearing their offerings, Abbott gave them the script for Pajama Game (from Richard Bissell's novel 7½ Cents})-and a month in which to write the first four songs. The big audition came on Christmas Eve, when they performed the songs for a battery of theatrical big guns. "We were scared to death," says Adler. "It was a lousy Christmas Eve." But next day they were told to go ahead with the rest...
...over the thumb and forefinger. Two powerdriven cables move the paralyzed fingers; the cables in turn are controlled by a pushbutton that can be worked by the other hand, by blowing through a tube or by pressure under the armpit. The metal hand has already enabled handicapped individuals to write, use the telephone and eating utensils, brush their teeth and even shave.