Word: handly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exeter, England, while Mrs. Diana Suthrell was waiting to receive a blue ribbon at an agricultural show, her prizewinning boar bit her on the hand...
...command its great new boat, the Navy has picked one of its best: Commander James Butler Osborn, 41, a Missouri-born, Annapolis-trained ('41) package of controlled power, who has been on hand 18 hours a day since March rushing work on George Washington. A World War II submariner (six combat patrols), Osborn spent his postwar years earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering in three years at Annapolis and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, firing the first subborne Regulus air-breathing missiles from the U.S.S. Tunny, taking an advanced course at Newport, R.I.'s Naval War College...
...news of Adenauer's change of mind raced through the Bundestag, Christian Democrats met behind closed doors, in anger and confusion. Summoned to explain himself, Adenauer faced the party's 270-man parliamentary delegation and unconsciously revealed part of his hand by suddenly launching into a diatribe against Erhard. Said Adenauer: "Herr Erhard . . . does not have sufficient experience in foreign policy matters. If you give a man a few brushes, a pot of paint and an easel, this does not make him an artist...
...moment of truth for the Geneva conference came in a "secret session" held at the elegant Villa Barakat, once the property of the late Aga Khan and now the temporary headquarters of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find...
...neither to the right nor the left." In conference the Führer displays manic mannerisms. He pushes back his chair, smites his thigh with frustrated rage, thunders ultimatums, broods in angry silence over folded arms. He inspired "such physical repugnance" that Sir Ivone hated to shake "his podgy hand," and at one point, though knowing it to be "pusillanimous," asked to be excused from attending another session with Hitler...