Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them. The onetime haberdasher whipped off his four-in-hand, skillfully knotted the bow tie without looking in a mirror...
...investigation into Chairman David Lilienthal's two-year stewardship of the Atomic Energy Commission had all the familiar trappings of a congressional hazing. But the act was getting out of hand. Baking in the floodlights that shone for the spider-legged newsreel and television cameras, Iowa's schoolmasterish Senator Bourke Hickenlooper suddenly began to look more like the defendant than the prosecutor...
...family by the death of the first son. The third and youngest son is left at the ranch to cope with the messy psychological situation created by his brother's death, among his sister, his parents, and his fiancee. By exercising fantastic self-control, he keeps the tensions in hand msot of the time, but just barely...
Bolles puts no stock in this philosophy. His crews do not start serious training until the spring term, and such relative periods of ease as displayed these last two weeks show what might be considered an off-hand approach to the whole sport...
...nervous University policeman intervened at this point, enjoined the student from hosing, and lifted his bursar's card as a warning to the mob not to let the antics get out of hand...