Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states: "I am a miner"-but the tapering, lily-white hand that he so proudly displays in your picture seems to belie the fact that he has ever done a day's manual labor in his life...
...bosses of the Communist Party, on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, now at the hour of reckoning, sat inside the rail behind their five lawyers. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, their unsmiling antagonist, rested his grey head on his hand...
...entirely through with the case yet. He still had to cast his melancholy eyes over briefs, listen to motions and arguments, hand out the sentences...
Changes Coming. The listening officers broke into applause, and many a naval eye was awash. They rushed forward to wring his hand. "Admiral Denfeld," said Missouri's Navy-minded Dewey Short admiringly, "I don't know what you had for lunch, but brother, it was a correct diet. There will be a lot of starch added to the shirts of the Navy." Chairman Vinson added gravely: "You have rendered a distinct service by putting the chips on the table...
...would take a long time to harvest, and farmers would have to hurry before rain or snow ruined the corn. Some farmers this week were turning their livestock into the fields to do the gleaning for them; many were hiring schoolboys to do the backbreaking picking by hand. In some localities, schools closed...