Word: handiwork
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...Builder has given various parts of his handiwork such symbolic names as Vale of Memory, Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Whispering Pines, Babyland. The result is sensational and Forest Lawn (disguised as "Beverly Pantheon") has achieved the minor immortality of an acid portrait by Aldous Huxley in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan...
...helmeted sentry crumpled with a guttural gurgle, presently lay still. Beside him a young Polish widow and her companion assessed their handiwork expertly, faded into the night. In sentry garroting, "it is better to work in pairs-a strong woman to do the actual strangling, and an attractive woman to divert the subject's attention...
...might be soldering together a radio set or making model airplanes in a little while instead of taking Latin or History if you had stayed in prep school. Secondary school students will soon, as a result of the war, be devoting 25% of their time to handiwork and vocational subjects, and only 75% of their time to cultural courses, according to Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...newscasts over Station XMHA were for four years the sharpest thorn in the side of Axis propagandists. Early marked by Axis gunmen and terrorists, he packed his tough 220 Ib. in a bullet-proof vest, bought a .45 and carried on. During the last two years he observed the handiwork of Tokyo's German advisers in coordinating stations in Manchukuo, Nanking and Shanghai with Tokyo's Government-operated Station JOAK and its Domei News Agency line of talk. Latest and ugliest trend in that talk: that the Japanese are fighting the yellow man's battles against...
...cannot be explained in terms of any single revolutionary formula." A series of sinister political geniuses, he believes, had something to do with it. "Lenin was its herald and pioneer. Hitler has made a great contribution. Mussolini and Stalin have played important roles. . . . But the revolt is not the handiwork of any single man or group of men. . . . Over this tremendous collapse . . . broods a strong element of fatalistic inevitability...