He always moved well, and his hands could say anything.

I knew Hand would say yes because for five months we hadn't said no.

This woman's hand on the man's shoulder said just that.

China, as old hands say, plays by its own rules.

Hand said, rising to his full five feet four inches.

"I really thought we were in trouble there," Hand said.

Fresh thinking is a plus, say old hands in the airline business.

"There are an increasing number of schools doing this," said Hand.

Yet old hands say these are hardly the "spray and play" days of the late 1990s.