Word: handiworks
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...cowboy boots down gingerly on the table between the little puddles of methedrine. Two or three pills slid off the end of the table and hid under the ragged couch. Bell smiled; he patted the golden swirls in his boots and looked admiringly, like God, upon his handiwork. For almost an hour he had carefully counted out the little pills that would keep his central nervous system, if not his mind, ticking, ticking like a clock that would never wind down, at least not until March. Counted them out in piles of fives until there were too many piles...
...kept that promise you made to your tearful waving-goodbye mother during that light-years-ago Freshman Week and you still tender your devotions regularly at Memorial Church on Sundays. If so, you will be familiar with the melodious handiwork of Lenora McCroskey, Assistant Organist and Choir Master there. She (not the cat's mother but McCroskey) will give a harpsichord recital in that be-steepled Greek temple opposite Widener that you might be going to 8:45 morning prayers at. Admission is free and the show sould be well worth listening...
Ullman's handiwork evoked howls of criticism from labor and business economists alike. "An administrative nightmare," declared AFL-CIO Research Director Rudy Oswald. "It's pro-Sun Belt and anti-Snow Belt," complained Jack Carlson, the chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who objected to the bias for only growing firms...
Symptoms is the handiwork of 20 leading specialists in different areas of medicine. In spite of the collegial authorship, Editor Sigmund Stephen Miller has managed to maintain a refreshingly wry tone. For example, in discussing nutrition, he notes that "sad to say, more organic food is sold than grown." Stressing preventive medicine, which is frequently neglected, he condemns smoking, prescribes liquor only in moderation and cries fowl (as well as fish) to saturated-fat-laden beef...
Tropical Madness. The tradition of Romantic landscape, with its vistas of beetling crags, waterfalls and floods of primordial light, rose from the vision of untouched America as a new Eden, the manifest handiwork of God. "Artists," a journalist noted in 1859, "are now scattered, like leaves or thistle blossoms, over the whole face of the country...