Word: handiwork
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With the pinkish hydraulic fluid spurting in our faces-and with no salad oil aboard to refill the draining hydraulic system-we stopped the leaks with chewing gum, reinforcing our handiwork with Band-Aids from the medical kits...
...control of the Red army. He alone has had to match the rigidities of Communist dogma with the realities of the undogmatic world outside. He has been the principal foreign agent of Communism since 1939. Most of the twists and somersaults of Soviet foreign policy have been his handiwork-in execution, and often in conception. But not necessarily in the basic decisions: Molotov is a born...
...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...