Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Published in the Near East, Africa and Asia, it is abundantly clear that this article would surpass even the handiwork of John Foster Dulles. Published in the CRIMSON, it was to say the least, the height of poor taste. Admittedly, a liberal paper tells both sides of all important issues; however, a wallowing in vulgarities is certainly beyond the scope of a Harvard publication. Ideas worth being heard, it seems, are worthy of decent expression. Moreover, it has been years since such vile language has appeared even in most of the newspapers of the deep South. However, ambivalence neither justifies...
...eleventh duke would have to put Chatsworth on the block, and see its treasures scattered round the world. But the young Devonshire, whose family motto is Cavendo tutus (Secure by Caution), vowed: "I will fight to the bitter end." At this point he was aided by the legal handiwork of a doctrinaire Socialist. Back in 1946 Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, operating on the Socialist theory that "the best that still remains should surely become the heritage not of a few private owners but of all our people," set aside a $140 million fund to reimburse the internal revenue...
Meanwhile, the Senate got ready to pass its handiwork this week by a generous vote. It was left to Georgia's Dick Russell to administer the coup de grâce in grand style. The South, said he after a post-victory caucus, had decided not to filibuster against the bill as it now stands...
...reader to draw his own conclusions - Connell has made his first steps in the direction of the goal set by that master of the short story, James Joyce, who argued that "the artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, paring his fingernails...
...gets around. It was doubly condescending in assuming that 1) viewers must be approached at the grade-school level to woo their interest in science, and 2) the circulatory system is so intrinsically dull that it takes the act of Capra to improve on the Lord's handiwork...