Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with rotary blades, to be held in the hand and operated by opening & closing the fingers...
Director Fechner still wears high-topped, hooked shoes as he did in Georgia 30 years ago. For fun he reads newspapers and magazines, occasionally sees a movie, plays a feeble hand of poker. With his closest friend and right-hand man at CCC, James J. McEntee, he lives at the modestly priced Burlington Hotel in Washington. (Mrs. Fechner spends the winters with him, the rest of the time at their home in Wollaston, Mass.) He is definitely not a military sort...
...After all, German soldiers have never yet fought on American soil except in the service of American independence.* On the other hand, American soldiers were called to Europe to help strangle a great nation that was struggling for its freedom. It was not Germany that attacked America, but America Germany...
...curious triangles from its perch and scattered its particles into the dark, spreading a mist of snow across the lower panes. Then the flakes fell into step again and circled past his eyes as they had before. A big flake flew out of nowhere at the pane near his hand and violently flattened itself against the transparency. It held on desperately, its edges vanishing. Then suddenly it loosened its grip on the smooth surface and catapulted down along a stream of its own moisture. And more, smaller flakes blew out of the night and hung to the glass, looking...
...insurance company taking out a fire policy; a profiteer, who wants to build a cinema on the Yard's site, wishes a fire would save him the trouble of razing it; a wistful bum who pillages the Yard garbage bins with a candle in his shaky hand; a couple of professional arsonists...