Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have lunch with him and Miss Mehrtens in Manhattan on the day TIME and the Marquand cover would appear on the newsstands. "Thinking about it on the way home," said Gissen, "it occurred to me that I would have to meet him with a copy of TIME in my hand and that that might turn out to be the bravest thing I've ever...
...been held up three times: for $4,090 last October; $1,750 the next month; $1,917 in January. The third time, a customer was shot in the hip when the gun went off in a nervous bank-robber's hand. Each time the robbers were captured and speedily bustled off to prison; the police recovered $2,817 of the loot, and insurance made up the rest-but the stickups made a deep impression on the bankers...
...circulated declaring that "Belgian workers would never take arms against their brothers in the Soviet Union and the people's democracies." The Brussels police, anticipating disturbance and well prepared for it, hustled off the troublemakers without difficulty. Churchill placidly smiled through the tumult with a cigar in one hand, a bunch of tulips in the other...
...ordered to show their fangs, he is down. He was down last week, but since, as secretary general, he was still the titular head of the French party, he was instructed to read a statement embodying the latest shift in the party line-a statement he had had no hand in preparing...
...danger of an attack of soroche-high-altitude sickness. With advice from Mottet, who had climbed the peak once before, Hackett skirted the traps until almost to the goal. Then the witches' wind that circles the summit caught him full blast and froze the fingers of his right hand...