Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor. Curley had been nursing a grudge ever since Truman let him spend five months in jail before commuting his sentence. Dever was Curley's man. With Tobin out of the race, Dever was assured of nomination, and Jim Curley, thanks to Harry Truman, was given a free hand in Massachusetts Democratic politics...
When Japan seized the country in 1905, the pretext was that Korea was a "Russian dagger pointed at Japan's heart." As long as it held North Korea the Russian hand would continue to grasp the dagger's handle. This week Rhee asked U.S. occupation forces to stay on "until the danger from the north lessens...
Another man mentioned as possible successor to Chiang was Defense Minister Ho Ying-chin, who leads the Whampoa Military Academy clique. If, as seems likely, the Gimo had a hand in picking his successor, he would probably prefer...
...subject to is the only true god . . . and that every conflict over prestige, power or money is a crusade for the Good, the True and the Beautiful . . . The longer you study modern history," concludes the Arch-Vicar, "the more evidence you find of Belial's Guiding Hand...
...Gertrude and Alice to thousands. Soldiers and newsmen of the liberating U.S. Seventh Army found themselves rapturously hugged & kissed by Lovey, stuffed with the excellent cookery of Pussy. And, by the time Brewsie and Willie appeared in 1946 (Gertrude Stein died with a copy of it clutched in each hand), the name of Stein had ceased to be merely an object of intellectual bickering and changed into a focus of highly popular emotion. Money flowed in from publishers, visitors flowed in from everywhere...