This action was to clench either their right or their left hand into a fist.
By 1975, Cabinet officers like Donald Rumsfeld, the once-and-future Pentagon chief, were trudging hat in hand into O'Neill's office.
Constance went to the balcony, opened the door, and stepped out, stuck her hand into the air over the edge.
HTC's chief executive, Peter Chou, has built the perfect company for giving Google a helping hand into the mobile phone market.
Then and only then would he reach down with his left hand into his left suit jacket pocket and pull out a stack of note cards.
In 2008, FuelerLinx founder Kevin Moller started gathering prices at 1, 800 locations by phone and fax, entering them by hand into a giant Excel spreadsheet on Wednesday mornings.
While the company has cranked out an Android handset or two over the past few years, it's now dipping a second hand into the Firefox OS pot.
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And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.
The remaining 19 were asked to submerge their non-dominant hand into a bucket of warm water for 90 seconds, while moving paper clips one at a time between two boxes, to keep up the illusion of the task being related to physical capabilities.
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In the company of Emma McCune, misguided though she might have seemed to some, Ms Scroggins takes the reader by the hand into the hot dust of southern Sudan and the politics of the belly, where black meets white, rich meets poor and the fat white paunch of the West gets to look upon starving Africa's distended stomach.
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Workers picked up wooden boards by hand and loaded them into hand carts.
Image-processing software would be able to convert those hand motions into something the computer would understand.
President Katsuhiko Kawasoe threw a verbal hand grenade into a room packed with reporters in March.
They say the West also dumps second-hand clothes into Africa at prices that stifle local textile production.
As we pass the stilt houses of the fish farmers, I let my hand fall into the water.
Less land on hand translates into less building and fewer construction jobs.
This allows the crab to insert a large toothlike appendage on its right-hand claw into the opening, thus cracking the snail's shell.
He told Wired that he would not hand himself into the police.
Although the arm is missing, fingers of his left hand press into the soft flesh of his hip, an unusually casual gesture for an Olympian hero.
Former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind described former Chancellor Lord Lawson's decision to back withdrawal as the equivalent of throwing a "hand grenade into a small building".
Though Shah eventually fell to Gul, England were sitting pretty on 152 with seven wickets in hand going into the last four overs, after Paul Collingwood had been dropped at deep square-leg.
President Obama is well aware of this and will want to do all that he can to strengthen his hand going into what is likely to be the legislative focus in the year 2013.
The "story" is about how wool has been dyed and hand spun into tweed by islanders for centuries and how in the 1840s it was first brought to the attention of commercial markets by a widowed aristocrat, Lady Dunmore, after she fell in love with the material.
Sometimes he coughed into his cupped hand, other times into the table, and we imagined microscopic life forms teeming toward the tabletop and ricocheting into breathable space.
She's facing a masked man whose right hand is contorted into the shape of a gun.
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As you try to add hand gestures back into your repertoire, the key to looking good is to move naturally.
As microprocessors become more powerful, mobile phones are changing into hand-held computers.
Last month, the California Institute of Technology developed a terahertz microchip, raising the possibility the technology could one day be packed into hand-held devices.
From scanners, to mobile friendly sites, price comparison apps and now plug-ins that turn phones into hand-held payment devices, 2011 is shaping up to be year of mobile commerce.
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