Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call up these cases for judicial review under exclusively American law," he warned, "can only be regarded as a warning to our associates in the trials that no commitment of the President or of the military authorities . . . has,finality [without] the approval of this court." On the other hand, he added, "our allies are more likely to understand and to forgive any assertion of excess jurisdiction . . . than our enemies would be to understand or condone any excess of scruple...
...international set at Istanbul was telling a true one on wealthy and open-handed Indian Ambassador Diwan Chaman Lall. Despite a 10% service charge tacked on to all his bills at the famed Park Hotel, Ambassador Lall knew well that the hotel's underpaid staff would be expecting tips when he left. So one day recently before rushing to catch the Ankara Express, he armed himself with a handful of crisp banknotes to take care of them. Sure enough, when he checked out, there was an expectant echelon of busboys, waiters, doormen, bellmen, telephone girls and elevator operators...
...courageous social reforms, division of property, support of the needy . . . My greatest hope at this moment, Mr. Spano, is that your soul may be saved. For this I would gladly give my life though I too am only an unworthy sinner." As he finished, he clasped Spano's hand and warmly embraced...
...first David had represented the young champion of a race-naked, frowning, indomitable, his murderous, swollen-looking right hand hanging loose at his side. The second version, done about 25 years later, had a softer, more subjective air; the boy's body was twisted like a flame and his head bowed dreamily over one shoulder...
...ground. "There is no subject," he wrote, "on which I feel more humble or yet at the same time more natural . . . Painting a picture is like fighting a battle ... If you need something to occupy your leisure, to divert your mind from the daily round . . . there is close at hand a wonderful new world of thought and craft, a sunlit garden gleaming with light and colour...