Word: handed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bountiful Earth. New technologies which had fairly revolutionized agriculture were producing another year of bumper crops. Under man's ingenious hand, was the earth becoming more & more bountiful? Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug said he was thinking of asking for a "few hundred million dollars" to harness the sun to heating plants and farm production...
...Friend." This week he went to Philadelphia for the American Legion convention. On orders from the White House -in which was seen the hand of faithful Harry Vaughan-the Defense Department had mobilized some 4,000 soldiers, sailors and marines, who lined the President's auto route in Philadelphia...
Hotel. They were there to elect a new national chairman, hand-picked by Harry Truman: smooth, 46-year-old William M. Boyle Jr., a veteran Kansas City politico. And at Boyle's insistence, they were there to expel some fifth columnists from the Party of the People...
...sleek sister moved in through the icy, spume-laced seas to her side. It was a deadly task. Both vessels were rolling wildly and constantly awash, and their hulls were as bare of hand holds as two whale's backs. A rubber boat set out from the Cochino, lost a man in the enormous waves...
...first, all Herman Melville wanted to do was to write an exciting story. His earlier novels, lively adventure stories of the South Seas, were gobbled up by the public and he was a quick success. In 1850, the cocky young writer set his hand to turning out another brisk and profitable sea tale. But what began as an uncomplicated whaling yarn ended as Moby-Dick, a masterpiece dense with symbolic meanings...