Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History, often a slatternly housekeeper, seldom tidies up until long after the party is over. Usually she is more hindered than helped by her guests. But last week one distinguished guest lent history a helping hand...
...York's tough, rabble-rousing Harlem Congressman Vito Marcantonio and his staff wrote the keynote speech for Negro Charles Howard, a Des Moines attorney, who had once been suspended by the Bar Association for misusing funds. Marcantonio himself took charge of the Rules Committee. At his left & right hand sat Hugh Bryson, leftist boss of the C.I.O. marine cooks, and John Abt, smart and sardonic New York labor lawyer, who managed to be everywhere at once throughout the convention's three days...
...When she had torn the snake loose and carefully returned it to its cage, she calmly instructed the photographer to apply tourniquets to her wrist and elbow told him where to find stimulants and needles. But the needles were rusty and the vials broke in the photographer's hand. "Take me to a hospital at once," she ordered. "This is serious...
...corner of his mouth was more pronounced than ever. France's Georges Bidault (about to lose his job, partly because he had lost popularity by going along with the U.S. on a program of German recovery) made his points tensely, striking the table with the edge of his hand. The Dutch host-chairman, Baron van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout, fiddled nervously with his papers. Luxemburg...
...these moments occurs when, at 22, he first takes the hand of the twelve-year-old girl he loves. She loves him, too, and their hearts are faithful through years of separation brought on by evil gossipers and the threat of arrest for contributing to the delinquency of a minor...