Word: handiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit from Russia's Khrushchev, Eisenhower was hardly likely to spread out his cards to please newsmen-and let the Russians count the pips. Even so, British newsmen built up tall hopes for high headlines. And when they were disappointed, they turned with fury on the handiest fall guy: Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty...
...Kendler in Chicago. In the U.S.H.A. finals against Bob Brady, 36, a fireballing San Francisco cop, Private Sloan was at the peak of his methodical, calm game ("I'm a controlled kill player"), won going away (21-20, 21-9) to become indisputably the nation's handiest handballer...
...mood. Earlier in the year, the nation's confidence was shaken by forebodings of depression. Unemployment was on the increase; industrial wage scales began to dip. Western Canada's wheat crop was the poorest in 17 years; retail business fell off. The gross national product, the handiest yardstick for measuring economic progress, appeared to be headed sharply downward...
...Democratic reaction to the new offensive was keen and swift. Democrats found their handiest targets in Ezra Benson, whose plain, logical arguments won surprising victories for his program both in the House and in the Senate (see THE CONGRESS). The Democratic high command built up steam for a big meeting at Sioux Falls. S.Dak., late this month, where Adlai Stevenson and other top Democrats will commiserate with the farmers. The Democratic Digest, which sets the party line, slapped Benson's picture on the cover of its September issue, along with the dubious headline: FARMERS GET THE BUSINESS...
...Asylum. The Arbenz crowd meanwhile, had scuttled to asylum. Many of them found the Mexican embassy, right across the street, the handiest. There went most of the Guatemalan Congress. There went the major Communists: Presidential Adviser Jose Manuel Fortuny, Labor Leader Victor Manuel Gutierrez, Peasant Boss Leonardo Castillo Flores, Editor Alfredo Guerra Borges. There went ex-Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello...