Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large piece of tongue fell into his hand, and while the flabbergasted police interrogator stared, Politics calmly wrapped it in his handerchief and settled back in his chair. Doctors tried fruitlessly to stitch the tongue back together...
...coast, and the flight of the Mufti's Arab Palestine government from Gaza to a Cairo suburb, where it declared itself ready to cede "its" territory to Transjordan's King Abdullah. By routing the Egyptians and their stooge, the Mufti, the Israelis had greatly strengthened the hand of Abdullah, the one Arab leader with whom they thought they might successfully talk peace. By the same token, they had increased the dissension between him and his jealous Arab rivals...
Arab-Israeli hatred was still rising. In hand-to-hand fighting around Huleiqat Israelis complained that Egyptian soldiers were biting them in the necks...
...Good Neighbor Mexico was hopping mad, and the U.S. was caught with its hand in the jam jar. The list of U.S. and Mexican labor, immigration, health and customs laws that had been fractured would be as long as a rebozo (traditional shawl of Mexico's Indian women). Worst of all, from the Mexican point of view, responsible U.S. officials had outrageously violated the signed agreement of Feb. 21, 1948, designed to control the flow of seasonal labor and protect Mexican workers from exploitation and prejudice in the U.S. (The February agreements barred bracero labor in Texas because...
...that the paper would put up Link's $11,000 bond "and will defend him to the last ditch." The Post-Dispatch rushed into print with a Sunday editorial (titled "The Green Machine Fights Back") that snarled: "Cowardly men in Illinois are watching the clock as the hour hand moves toward Election Day . . . They think they can muzzle the Post-Dispatch. They are wrong. The Post-Dispatch will not be intimidated. It will not be gagged." Staffers figured that the charge against Link would be quietly dropped after election. But the Post-Dispatch had no intention of dropping...