Word: righthander
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...Lorgneur the result was a slight wrinkling of the surface in the upper righthand sky. But Watteau had good reason for haste. Suffering from tuberculosis, he was always in failing health. Once, asked about the future, he replied: "Isn't the hospital the last resort? There, no one is refused admission." Instead it was in a country house outside Paris, where he hoped the fresh air would cure him, that Watteau died...
...elected to Parliament in 1945 from home constituency of the Wirral, near Liverpool, he won reputation as spirited young backbencher, specialized in economic affairs, was picked by Rab Butler as his chief assistant in formulating program which returned Tories to power in 1951. After election, Eden made him his righthand man in Foreign Office as Minister of State. For three years he headed British delegation to U.N. A great believer in private conversations and searcher for compromises, he used such phrases as "meeting the Russians halfway," and assiduously courted the Indians as a vehicle for compromise. But he was also...
Guilty Cylinder. At the scene of the crash of Flight 476. the CAB men searched out every scrap of wreckage. Then all parts that might be concerned with the accident were taken to American Airlines' Overhaul and Supply Depot at Tulsa, where the No. 2 (righthand) engine, with its adjacent landing gear and wing structure was assembled in flight position. By this time the CAB detectives had a good notion where the trouble started, but they came to no decision until masses of evidence had been accumulated...
Both are converted southpaws, and they were converted into anything but boxers. From the start they hardly bothered with anything so effete as an old-fashioned left jab. Free-swinging hooks to head and gut were what they threw. Nor was either of them beyond trying incautious righthand leads. It made a fine, bloody brawl. And DeMarco came close to finishing it in the seventh, when he clobbered the champ with a left hook to the jaw. Basilio's legs began a limber, loose-kneed dance of their own; his eyes emptied and his seconds screamed...
...crimes system was made to seem particularly unjust in German eyes last week by the climax of the case of notorious Nazi War Propagandist Werner Naumann. Onetime righthand man to Goebbels, Naumann went underground in 1945 and stayed there through the bitter de-Nazification period, emerging only when new laws enabled him to escape being labeled a major offender. An unrepenting Hitlerite, he was soon active in neo-Nazi circles. Arrested by the British in 1953 for "endangering the occupation," he was deprived of the right to make public speeches, write for the press, broadcast or hold public office...