Word: handiwork
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...lawn and be hosts to about 100 local farmers, village headmen and their families. There will be plenty of curry, hot dogs, ham and soft drinks, as well as native reed-pipe music, color slides and movies. Next day, precisely at noon, surrounded by gifts of native handiwork-fish traps, bamboo baskets, buffalo and cattle bells, even blow guns-Alex and Elsie Johnson will sit down to Christmas dinner. And back home in Miami it will be midnight on Christmas...
...Frenchmen last week examined the results of their two-week electoral spree, they seemed to have the slightly dismayed air of a finger painter surveying his own handiwork. They knew what they were voting against (the old gang), but were now surprised by what they had voted for. Even Charles de Gaulle himself had not wanted the kind of right-wing majority he got. He had insisted on a single-constituency method of voting that was presumed to favor familiar names (principally the Socialists and Radicals) over a grab bag of unknowns styling themselves Gaullists, some of them able, many...
...nimble fat man, Khrushchev mounted the red-draped platform opposite the power station. "Dear Comrades!" he cried, and launched into the usual speech of glowing praise. For writing "a glorious new page," the workers were decorated collectively, then and there, with the Order of Lenin. Reminding them that their handiwork was "the largest hydropower station in the world," Khrushchev boasted that "the Americans took over 20 years to build their largest hydropower station, Grand Coulee,"* while "our Soviet workers" needed only seven years for Kuibyshev. "That, comrades, is an outstanding victory!" On the platform with Nikita, the engineers of Kuibyshev...
...miracle of life. After reading your article, "The Secret of Life," I am even more profoundly amazed that the geneticists can seriously entertain the theory of chance rendezvous of DNA ultimately producing the complex human being. How much more logical it would be to attribute creation to "the handiwork...
...board of governors to pay a Manhattan dealer $270,000 for it-the biggest sum spent by the museum in years. Says Brown, enthusiastically, "It's the second-best Goya this side of the Atlantic.* It's a major painting, monumental, beautiful and appealing. Goya's handiwork shows in every stroke...