Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grasped my hand in a bony grip, and magically we were whisked into the air. "We are taking a trip through time and space to show you how money is made and why Harvard needs all of it," he said, anticipating my question. Instantaneously we appeared in the printing room of the U.S. mint...
...victory party slowly came to an end around 1 a.m., one support staff member, laughing and singing with a beer in her hand, walked away, saying, "I'm not drunk really. I'm just tired...
...continued to take on tough issues, pushing the hiring of women and minority professors. He joined other university presidents in exploring possible ethical conflicts in commercially sponsored research and refusing government research contracts with restrictive clauses about publication. He has navigated such shoals by combining a firm hand with a collegial deference to his faculty that has spared him much of the president-bashing common to academe...
Outside France, feelings were less euphoric. There are now 16 foreign hostages in Lebanon, including nine Americans and three Britons. The French deal raised fears that freeing those still held would be more difficult and that the release might even encourage more kidnapings. Pounding her hand in the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared, "We will not pay ransom!" In Washington, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman expressed the same view...
...empty Midwestern concert hall listening to the first rehearsal of his new Violin Concerto by the Kansas City Symphony. "I know I wrote slurs over those eighth notes, but they're all jumbled together. They sound like mush." Davis jumps up and heads toward the conductor, score in hand. "We need to hear each one separately," he says. "Dig-a-da-dum!" he scats, his right hand punching the air in emphasis. All at once, something that had been mumbled turns articulate as the strings bite into their parts...