Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in.

In October 1958 a six-province Conference on Sand Dune Control was convened at Huhehot, capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. At this conference the Soviet scientists reported that the Soviet Academy of Sciences was planning to carry out a desert control project in Soviet central Asia from 1959 to 1965.

The literal translation is hands full of bananas but it means empty-handed.

One man was skiting around on a big, wheeled camera like a Dalek, dodging the scurrying assistants and clipboard-wielders, […]