Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forthwith received telephone calls from the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other publications. If the inquisitors had been familiar with the weeklies, they would have known that the letter, like much else that appears in the papers, was a fake. The missive was the handiwork of Dan Rattiner, 35, who publishes the six summer papers and two others (a total of 64,000 giveaway copies a week) and has a good time doing...
These are dangers that Gill's book does not always sidestep. In truth, he sometimes rushes to embrace them: "It is obvious that the New Testament would make far more satisfactory reading if it had been the handiwork of Matthew, Mark, Luke and Shawn...
...sign a petition to fight pollution. After the map is burned totally black, a wind begins to scatter the ashes and a deep, doom-ridden voice warns: "Great civilizations decay from within. But it's up to you. Will history repeat itself?" This apocalyptic message is not the handiwork of aging cynics gone sour on the American dream but of six Naperville, Ill., teenagers. Invited by A. Eicoff & Co., a Chicago advertising agency, to dream up a 60-second public-service spot, the youngsters produced a stark, unadorned outcry against what they conceived to be a deadening decline...
...Left operatives may well have included in their ranks the infamous "Tommy the Traveller," an agent provocateur working out of Hobart, Cornell and other colleges during the late sixties. The Black Activism unit focused on the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, and other groups. Their handiwork included the infiltration of Malcolm X's organization by a man who soon became the black leader's personal bodyguard...
Almost a year has passed since the Paris agreement brought an end to the U.S. fighting role in South Viet Nam, and last week the chief architects of the accord met again to review the current state of their handiwork. Taking time off from his frantic efforts to find peace in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stopped by in Paris to confer with his partner in this year's Nobel Peace Prize, North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Due Tho.* Later, a U.S. spokesman said that the 4½-hour meeting at the Hotel Majestic...