Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry le Souriant." Abroad, Harry Truman's victory had raised spirits and stilled fears. Europe felt new confidence that the strong hand of the U.S. would continue to bear it up. To the French, the victory of "Harry le souriant' (smiling Harry) meant that the U.S. people had moved closer to them in spirit. In Greece, Athenian grey-marketeers renamed the street where they sell U.S. goods "Uncle Harry Street." Said a Tel Aviv newspaperman: "He is a simple human being, a man of the people. We would rather trust our fate to him than to the cool...
...Take Him Out!" Lynn Patrick was no stranger to the Rangers. For nine seasons before the war, he had been known as a bold, fleet left wing with a deadly left-hand shot. His preeminence was no gift. In Lynn's first game, in 1934, he got the puck, glided confidently toward the goal, was neatly dumped on the ice by a couple of veterans. Sneered one: "Don't hurt him, he's the boss's son." The crowd chanted: "Take him out! Take him out!" They thought he might be trying...
...urgent tasks is getting uranium out of low-grade ores. Another: chemical separation of the dangerous radioactive byproducts of plutonium manufacture. Says Dr. Pitzer: "The problems holding up the Atomic Energy Commission are chiefly chemical ones. The problems of physics were handled first, and they are far better in hand than the problems of chemistry...
There was not a single odalisque or flowery still life in the place. Matisse had turned to higher, harder themes. Severe line drawings of a long-robed Saint, the Stations of the Cross, and the Virgin and Child now flowed from his hand...
...Fairless given any thought to the steel shortage? "Are we going to sit here and see this [steel] demand fall," roared O'Mahoney, "or are we going to take action which will maintain the demand . . .? On every hand you find evidence of popular desire for things which are not being supplied . . . But you find also that because of inflation, people's needs are outrunning their income. Shall we just wait...