Word: fended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mild Advantages. The causes of left-handedness remain obscure. Some authorities believe that environment plays a significant role in the child's choice of handedness, while others maintain that heredity is all. Little is known about the problem beyond the fact that the left-hander must learn to fend for himself in a world that seldom pays any heed to his special needs. Production lines grind out an endless assortment of tools and equipment designed solely for the righthander, with only occasional exceptions for lefty. Left-handed golf clubs can be found, but usually they must be specially ordered...
...explain anything to you,' she said, and walked quickly back to a tree." Willingly suspending her disbelief, the girl was led off towards the highway by the man. He said they would go on a journey together. She, being impressionable, but not stupid, thought to fend him off with a stock plagiarism, "You look about as much like my grandmother as Calvin Coolidge looks like the MGM lion." He, cleverly, ignored her. She, feeling somewhat naked, had no choice but to go with him. The idea is in the mood. They spoke. Albion Moonlight...
Some people object that the urge to fend for oneself in as aggressive a manner as possible is basic human nature. This is not so. It is all a matter of human conditioning and any conditioning can be de-conditioned...
...come from the English satirical tradition, but beneath this veneer the American grain runs deep: he knows his way intimately around the moral and physical landscape of the U.S. middle class. Sheed relishes the ridiculous but champions the sane and normal. His protagonists are ordinary guys desperately trying to fend off the world's idiocies and evils long enough to define themselves and do the decent thing. They rarely succeed completely. Solitary Baseball. The fourth-generation writer in his family, Sheed was ?orn in London, the son of Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed (of the Catholic publishing firm Sheed...
Anxious to populate and develop Siberia and determined to fend off Red Chinese incursions, Russia is turning to Japan for capital and technical assistance. Dazzled by all the timber, iron ore, copper, manganese, oil and diamonds so close across the Sea of Japan, the Japanese now refer happily to Siberia as "virgin soil...