Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Test Case. In Manhattan, Tavern Owner Lillian Wolfe joined a discussion of crime, assured two of her customers that "if this place were held up, I'd hand over every cent," promptly obliged when one of them pulled...
...propagandizing for any political group" but at the same time there is a considerable distance between propagandizing and the legitimate expression of considered views. It is perfectly possible, and in some institutions it is required, to present controversial questions in a neutral manner. However, the "on the one hand and on the other hand" approach seems to me to leave much to be desired when we come to as clear-cut a matter as probity in public life. The notion that every classroom should become a public forum is patently absurd. To the best of my knowledge, all persons enrolled...
That new ruling was not acceptable to the RAYD. The group again refused to hand in a roster of members and consequently was denied charter renewal. The RAYD feels that there will still be "persecution of girls who join left organizations," and that college authorities might give out names to government or private investigators. If the information that a girl once belonged to a group called "subversive" by the Justice Department were handed out freely, it would seriously prejudice her career, and many girls would stay away from such clubs...
...latest news about Elizabeth Bowen is that, in her new novel (her first in ten years), she has taken in hand a whole new range of novelist's material; that this material includes the war and many of the unprecedented goods & evils, loyalties and disloyalties that emerged into mid-century consciousness in the course of it. It is by all odds her finest book...
...until we can get infantry to winkle the guns out." When the winkling is done, all that is left is "a pair of boots protruding from a roadside ditch; a body blackened and bent like a chicken burnt in a stove; a face pressed into the dirt; a hand reaching up out of a mass of brick and timbers . . ." and very little else of the sth Battalion. But the British tanks, "their commanders standing like conquerors in their open turrets," rumble through, towards Germany...