Word: handly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jock's hand reached back from the grave and caught his own killers." The words were those of the attorney for Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, slain insurgent candidate for the leadership of the United Mine Workers Union. They fairly characterized the capture of three suspects in the murder. Yablonski, 59, had spent the last few weeks of his life in steadily mounting terror. Fearing assassination, he began keeping a gun at his bedside, installed floodlights outside his secluded Clarksville, Pa., home, and kept a list of license-plate numbers of unfamiliar cars in the area...
...Russia and China, on the other hand, an untamed peasantry became the backbone of another successful authoritarian movement: Communism. But the Puritan revolution in England and the 1789 revolution in France effectively crippled the agricultural powers and opened the way for modernization along democratic lines. The one social revolution in the U.S.-the Civil War-succeeded only partially, according to Moore. The radical reconstructionists failed to win the land redistribution in the South that would have assured the ex-slaves their freedom. Still, the power of the landowners was sufficiently reduced to prevent them from later joining with Northern capitalists...
...hand we have six days of possible disturbance [from the Patriots game in the Stadium]," Sullivan said, "and on the other we have...
...expects to get, you feign shock and make a counter-offer of two-thirds what you're willing to pay, and you whittle each other to the appropriate price. It can be a sport or a chore, depending on the wit and passion of the shopkeeper ("Ah! $5 for hand-made, fine hand-crafted, really real peasant blanket? The joke of my life...
...stopped watching him as my friends were climbing back into the car. Our driver walked over to the attendant and handed him his father's gas credit card. The man slowly took it with a grease-smeared hand and wheeled around towards the credit-card press as my friend got back into the driver's seat. There was a little happy talk in the back seat about the utter foulness of the bathroom and nickels lost forever in the fucking gum machine. The gas station attendant came to the driver's window with the credit-card on a receipt-board...