Word: ham-handedness
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Last February, Joe Curran was sold a bill of goods. The name of the goods: the Committee for Maritime Unity. From a trade-union point of view the idea seemed fine; C.M.U. would be the united front of all maritime and longshoremen unions. Ham-handed Joe Curran took his big...
Big Ed Kelly had held Chicago in his ham-handed fist for a dozen years. But last week his grip was so flabby that the Democrats lost, besides four Congressmen, two key county officers. The city simply could not pile up the plurality to outweigh the Republican suburbs in Cook...
But the Army was not appeased. The ham-handed amateurs, who had blundered into crime because a corporal could not be moderate in his looting, would be court-martialed.
But Congress had not listened very carefully to the nurses. If recruiting has failed, the nurses declared, it is due to many things and not all of them are women's lack of a sense of duty. Methods of recruiting, they said, are ham-handed and confused. Too many...
Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, hulking, ham-handed onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion (1933), was reported arrested in northern Italy, then freed under close Gestapo surveillance. U.S. sports fans raised their eyebrows at the story, which made out hapless Primo an agile hero: Mrs. Carnera had made some anti...