Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The gates were opened and the crowd swirled around the train. Someone handed the President a copy of an early election-night edition of the Truman-hating Chicago Tribune with a banner line: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, and he held up the paper to the crowd, grinning.
Before the "informal" wartime period, the 1942 team was without the services of its captain Don Forte for all but four games. Right and Ferto, whose one-handed pass catch had clinched the 1941 Yale game, chipped his ankle in a pre-season scrimmage and did not play a minute...
Rawest Deal? The Labor government's bill, made public three days later, called for the nationalization of 107 companies, accounting for over 90% of the whole industry and 300,000 workers. Private owners would be compensated at the market value of their holdings. The Tories immediately roared with pain...
Brought before the Circus Saints and Sinners as their 100th "fall guy," Socialist Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas took it from 1,200 guests, but he also dished it out. Handed a "diamond-studded" soapbox and a microphone (marked WIND), Thomas cracked: "I think I know why you gave me this...
Tomorrow. In a German high school, the boys were asked to write a composition "On the future of Germany," and to state their opinions truly and fearlessly. All the compositions sounded much like this one, which a "quiet boy" handed in: