Word: handiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalin may have had purely Russian reasons for pointing outward toward imagined enemies. Restless Russians have been asking for more food, clothes and "luxuries." Although Stalin in his speech announced that food rationing would soon end, the foreign menace is still his handiest excuse for low living standards...
...Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment. The Bradens have five children, three grandchildren...
...Utah Radio Products Co. of Chicago by Dec. 1. The spool of wire is long enough (11,200 ft.) to play for 60 minutes. It will play the same recording an indefinite number of times, or the recording can be "erased" after one playing and another made. Handiest feature: a clock attachment which synchronizes radio and wire recorder. It will turn on both at a set time, record a radio program while the owner is away from home...
Again there had been no real advance planning on a huge problem that had been visibly approaching for a long time. Again there had been some hasty last-minute improvisation, and the plan that was handiest and most attractive at the moment had been seized...
Probable first use of the W Allisons: to power super-fighter planes now in design. One of its handiest features: most of its parts are interchangeable with Allisons now in service...