Word: forehandedness
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The plot of Blithe Spirit is these people chain-drinking and alternating from backhanded compliment to forehanded insult. One can only imagine the shock Coward must have experienced when he opened a playwriting book and learned that plays require forward plot movement and a climax. The plot he has devised...
Moses, who had commissioned Marie Matise to design Rosalynn's six-year-old ball gown, wanted to do something special again for Jan. 20. He asked several designers for sketches. Rompollo, a forehanded fellow, had been collecting photographs of Mrs. Carter ever since the election in order to get...
Modern corporations usually make it a practice to prepare carefully for any change in command. But few are as forehanded as Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the Thundering Herd of Wall Street. The biggest brokerage house in the world, with 170 offices and a $369,443,000 annual business with...
At the 16th hole, for example, an alert cameraman caught Jack Nicklaus opening his club face on an approach shot. That, explained Commentator Byron Nelson, was for backspin. And sure enough, the ball hit beyond the pin and rolled back, back-whoops, too far. When he got to the par...
James McCormack, LL.D., board chairman and chief executive officer, Communications Satellite Corp. Like the forehanded avian who catches the worm, you are the Early Bird who catches the rewards of intercontinental communications to the benefit of all nations and all men.