Word: handiwork
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...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...
...temporary "construction shacks" are two strange buildings shaped like asterisks. Around them fields are covered with stacked pipe and piled lumber. Widely dispersed among the gentle hills are enormous, bright-red gashes with concrete-mixing machines standing over them on towers. Around each machine is spread its handiwork: vast footings and foundations. Some are a quarter-mile long; some look massive enough to serve as the roots of mountains...
...established a broad program of vocational training. He was the first warden to let prisoners listen to radios in their cells. He encouraged athletics, inaugurated a prison newspaper to which he contributed a regular column ("Facts-Not Rumors"), established the first prison chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous, let prisoners sell handiwork such as belts and wallets...
...Carter does not rely solely on the desert varnish to prove his case. Along the coast of Southern California are many kitchen middens, where ancient Californians tossed refuse from their shore dinners. Middens containing the handiwork of recent Indians are full of well-preserved shells. In middens containing fine stone blades (probably from the Folsom period), the lime of the shells is partly leached away. Middens that have lost all their lime have stone artifacts much cruder than the Folsom type. There are even older middens with only rough stone flakes and grinding slabs. These sometimes have two or three...