Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories were not written by Russian propagandists or by permanent correspondents in Moscow, who sometimes sound the same (see below). They were the handiwork of a group of U.S. radiomen and newsmen who had unexpectedly been allowed to enter Russia. Mostly editors and publishers of small-town dailies and weeklies, they were aptly dubbed "The Rover Boys in Moscow" by the New York Post. They wrote about Moscow as if they had never seen a big city...
...modern newspapers." Across the continent in Manhattan, the Herald-Tribune (331,853), which has won more major typographical awards than any other paper in the U.S., made no announcement as it transformed its sports pages to test a front-to-back typographical overhauling. But both jobs were the handiwork of the same man-beefy, jovial Gilbert Farrar. 66. who has redesigned 60 dailies in the U.S. and Canada. and has earned a reputation .as "Mr. Typography" of the U.S. press...
...sharecropped 160 acres, but much preferred dabbling in politics. While Whitten Sparkman discharged the duties of his occasional political jobs -jailer, deputy sheriff or local judge-his sons chopped cotton. Sometimes the family income dropped below $200 a year, and all of the children's clothes were the handiwork of Julia Sparkman, their gentle, Bible-reading mother...
...years. This was his first important victory. Credit, he confesses, should go to Mechanic Alfred Momo, 56, a Ferrari specialist and former Italian air-force man. His winning 4.1-liter Ferrari (Model America) is essentially just as it came from the factory: $12,000 worth of Italian handiwork with an aluminum body and a triple-carburetor, twelve-cylinder engine (220 h.p.), capable of driving the car 140 m.p.h. Spear and Momo made only two alterations: an anti-sway bar was installed in front to improve the car's "cornering" qualities, i.e., its ability to hold the road...
...stench of their handiwork has turned their stomach. Of late, the British residents have devoted a great deal of effort to repair some of the damage. They even went so far as to extend the franchise to "coloreds" men of mixed native and European ancestry...