Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...outsold us in our own back yard. Germans, as a rule, learn Spanish thoroughly ; they not only speak it well, they have usually boned a good Spanish grammar until they know the structure of the language as well as they do their own. The average American, on the other hand, learns just enough Spanish to get along in his work. ... A typical American sales representative will breeze into the Bogotá branch of the National City Bank and ask for an interpreter to go around and talk to some Colombian businessmen for him; your German will ride two days...
Thousands on thousands of times, in the crisp airs of 30 autumns, Franklin D. Roosevelt had flung up a long right arm, waving his hand or his hat, to the cheers of voters. In 30 years he has mastered every trick: the engaging, nonchalant hand waggle, the last artful inflection of voice, how to hit headlines in both afternoon and morning newspapers...
...Marshal, dressed in a horizon-blue uniform like the one he wore when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want war, and I regret making your acquaintance under these circumstances." Then they talked business. The German terms were hard but not unacceptable. The Vichy press even approved the "grandeur" of Hitler's attitude toward his beaten foes...
Except for this Elephant sally, the Deacons had the upper hand the whole game. But the Eliot line held up to the last few minutes of the game. Then Kirkland made a desperate drive, and reached pay dirt with seven seconds left to play. The place kick failed...
...government technicians to be located at Blue Hill will be Irving F. Hand, of Washington, D. C.; and Mrs. Helen Cullinane, also of the Washington Bureau, formerly of Reading, Massachusetts...