Word: handiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they prepare for the Super Bowl or any other game, the coaches' handiest cliché is that they don't worry about the things they can't control. It's not true...
...autobiography, Laurence Olivier remarks that bitchiness can be a "journalist's handiest tool." Perhaps Lord Olivier was thinking mostly of Britain, where the gift for malice, and the appetite for it, is higher than here. An English playwright, Arnold Wesker, once wrote The Journalists, a drama about "the poisonous human need to cut better men down to our size . . . The lilliputian journalist be the interviewee's fame, influence or achievement." That too may be more true in Britain...
While Harvard alumni reunions are traditionally marked by outings, handiest and fundraising soirees, this year annual whirl of events has also focused on some of the moral and political questions of our day. On Monday, as part of the official commencement week schedule. Harvard Alumni officials presented symposium to educate graduates on the perils of nuclear war which more than 400 people attended...
...course, there were bad days at the Super-Saver, like when I sorted cases of Super-Saver soda, deciding which ones had too many maggots infesting them after nine years at the warehouse. Shoppers, outraged about inflation and economic inequity, often directed their anger at the handiest extension of the capitalist hierarchy--me. And I had to endure repeated performances of the 101 Strings version of "Across the Universe...