Word: handiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Alps were far from the loftiest of mountains, they were the handiest for Europeans, and they made up in beauty what they lacked in sheer mass. Each year there was news of cave-ins, slips and deaths. But the danger seemed only to increase the fascination and the number of climbers. This summer, a record 100,000 enthusiasts (v. 66,000 last season) checked in at Alpine mountain cabins, equipped with ropes, poles and ice axes, for what turned out to be one of the most disastrous years in the sport's history...
...even if the president wanted something else. One thing Meyer especially feared was that, if he did not have more control, loans would be granted not on their financial merits but on the basis of U.S. foreign trade policy. If such loans went sour, the president would be the handiest person to blame...
...Army does not admit officially that it plans to shoot rockets at the moon. Congress might think it frivolous, though the moon is the handiest gull's-eye for extra-atmospheric target practice. In spite of the Army's reticence, Dr. J. A. Hutcheson, associate director of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, has heard unofficially that the Army's first moon rocket may be fired in 18 months. This seemed optimistic, considering the difficulties. But last week Dr. Hutcheson was excitedly designing a radio station to be rocketed to the moon, where it would broadcast back to earth...
Incensed when City Editor Lou Young of the Los Angeles Herald & Express canceled her day off, Aggie barged across the city room, proceeded to belabor him about the arms and neck with her handiest weapon-a three-foot barracuda which a fisherman had just given her. City Editor Young heard the laughter, decided it was best to join...
Sherlock Holmes would have been at home in Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...