Word: hamfistedness
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Ships. Whereas Homer Martin would like to be a Strong Man and run U. A. W. according to his lights, National Maritime Union's Founder Joe Curran is a Strong Man who believes unions should run themselves. Last week hamfisted Sailor Curran was in trouble, trying to preserve his...
Two summers ago the five whites were cursing their luck in Tientsin's sleazy port. Waiter Muller and George Schroeder, two brawny mechanics, were tired of snatching purses. Hamfisted, square-headed Heinrich Westermann had failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's...
Defying God, if He exists, to strike one dead, is all very well for the smalltime, itinerant atheist. But hamfisted, leather-lunged Emelyan Yaroslavsky is the biggest shot in world atheism. As the walloping chairman of the Soviet League of Militant Godless, Comrade Yaroslavsky pulls the levers of a Juggernaut...