Word: handier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When 22 and working under Tatum as a graduate student at Yale, Lederberg proved that bacteria have a sex life of a sort, i.e., reproduce by the union of two organisms, with a consequent exchange of genes. This discovery widely expanded the field of experiment, since bacteria are even handier than molds in genetic experiments...
...down and out, shaken by the DTs, degraded by three nightmare marriages plus numerous vulgar affairs, and reduced to borrowing $100 from Tyrone Power-how can she rehabilitate herself? By turning to Alcoholics Anonymous? To a psychoanalyst? To the Salvation Army? Whatever else she tries, there is a handier way. She simply writes a book about...
John Wesley, a specialist in bringing the wicked to their senses, conceded that for work of this kind, nothing was handier than an earthquake. "There is no divine visitation." he wrote with a connoisseur's relish, "which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners." Methodism's Founder Wesley thus neatly expressed the theme of a curious and scholarly account of the great Lisbon earthquake, in which Sir Thomas D. (for Downing) Kendrick now traces the long-forgotten relation between sin and seismology...
...that they had actually decided to do it early the preceding spring, but had not mentioned the decision to a soul. The secrecy was a complete oversight, claimed Master Perkins: "We were crossing our bridges when we came to them, although looking back on it, it might have been handier to say something about it at the time." Finally, on October 1, the Masters met, and turned down student appeals with a curt "You can always get somebody to sign a petition." Once again they decided--this time openly--to enforce an 8 p.m. Saturday deadline during the football season...
...rest of their narratives, scenes that descend to the depths of atrocity. Moreover, they ask not only for our interest, but for our admiration. It is not just the villains who smash noses, gouge eyes, and beat people to a jelly; the heroes do it too, and indeed are handier at it than the villains...