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Word: handly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Muralist Orozco has two arms-but only one hand. When he was 15, he lost his left hand while playing with some gunpowder. He says: "It has never been a handicap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Your account of the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss debate is a masterpiece of "bend-ing-over-backwards" fairness. Would like to shake your collective hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...other hand, we think time is working for us, because in a year or two we can hope to have made progress toward a stable Western Europe and toward a U.S.-Western European rearmament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Gentlemen, I Have a Plan | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...flee her country, and with all the warmth she had suppressed in her younger years, she worked for liberation. War brought her a sense of comradeship with her people that she had never known. When she returned to her country, she was humble. "I should come hat in hand," she said, "asking if someone can put me up for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Woman Who Wanted a Smile | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...strapping, 6 ft. 4 white hero, brought up by Indians, whose progress toward the niceties of civilization is not enough to keep him from salting away the hand of an enemy as a trophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reading Book | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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