Word: handed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, Clark has been willing to suffer through initial disappointment with a business that gives signs of eventually becoming a major profit maker. He nursed the American Express credit-card operation through years of losses while Amexco was spending heavily to promote it. The company now has 3,000,000 cardholders, who charge purchases of $1.3 billion a year, and is by far the biggest factor in the field, though it is being increasingly challenged by the many cards issued by banks...
...each and every one of his novels, The Origin of the Brunists and The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., the one and only Robert Coover performed brilliant literary acrobatics in the center ring. Now, with sleights of hand, desperate feints, chills and thrills, he impersonates the fat man and the thin lady, the magician pulling himself from a hat, the juggler, ringmaster, hall of mirrors...
...rain failed to slow down shifty Bill Spiro, who had a hand in five touchdowns. After the fourth score, the lefthander attempted to throw for the extra point behind his back, but the pass fell incomplete...
...girl who works at the zoo teaches chimpanzees how to pet their own newborn chimps. She holds the chimp's hand and together they stroke the baby. As if it were...
...other hand, supporters of the split point out that the nature of the department's interdisciplinary approach is unfavorable to other fields of learning. "Economists, political scientists, and historians take a very dim view of working with psychologists," explained Alex Inkeles, professor of Social Relations. "The stronger ties that sociology should have with these fields tend to be muted by the present arrangement...