Word: ham-handedness
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Charles once or twice managed a clean straight right that caught the champion coming in and stopped him short. Then Rocky would shake the punch off and take up his stiff-legged charge. Stubbornly, Charles refused to go down. When the bell rang at the finish of the 15th round...
These were sweeping decisions, some of which will continue to affect the U.S. people and their allies for years to come. In many ways they proved an organizational grasp of the workings of the Pentagon which none of Engine Charlie's predecessors in office had ever shown. To all...
A Pat on the Cheek. At just about this time, last week's other star witness, an ex-robber named Dominick Genova, was getting out of prison. Genova went to the waterfront, too, and witnessed the meteoric rise of slim, ham-handed Mickey Bowers-boss of the I.L.A.'...
Freedom of Soul. At one point the hearing came close to winding up as a melodrama. While Brooklyn College's Biology Professor Harry G. Albaum was testifying about his gradual seduction by the Communist Party, a hefty, ham-handed man slipped into a rear-row seat in the hearing...
The Twin Weapons. Sam Morison writes with grace-and without ham-handed politeness. Interservice etiquette bothers him not at all. The soldiers at Makin were "miserably slow," and their fellows from the same division (the 27th) at Eniwetok were "all right but their training and leadership alike were poor." On...