Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...near Venice. Out jumped Benito Mussolini and into an automobile. He drove to ancient Padua, which Attila the Hun sacked and burned in 452 A.D., and there reviewed the motorized Turin division of the Army of the Po. He saw 10,000 soldiers, but 150,000 civilians were on hand to look at him. After reviewing the troops he stood up in a camouflaged armored car and led them all in patriotic songs. Then, in monstrous high spirits, he strode into a troopers' canteen and, sitting on a log like the lowliest man, stuffed himself with hardtack, spaghetti, broccoli...
...Equatorial Africa, straight from his failure at Dakar. Despite that fiasco, he still had hope. Said he: "I cite Hitler's words from Mein Kampf that a people may be beaten, but when a people and their leaders accept defeat, then they are forever lost. On the other hand, if a handful of men do not accept defeat, everything is to be hoped for. The Cameroons will have a place in the history of this war and the history of the nation...
...rider who got the biggest hand was Bill Moore of Dallas, who competed with his broken arm in a cast, gracefully hit the dust with his cast held high...
...with modern applications of the classics. Quite without sparkle, their program plodded at a pedestrian classroom pace. Nonetheless, to the amazement of one & all, by last week it had attained an estimated audience of 1,000,000. Half a dozen publishers began to sell cheap editions of the classics hand over fist, 4,000 libraries found the books in such demand that they dug them out of dusty stacks, put them on special shelves...
...upper left arm. Dr. Head, a robust, 42-year-old neurologist, was no masochist. He wanted to learn the connection between nerves and pain. The surgeon severed two nerves in Dr. Head's arm, flexed it at the elbow, put it up in a splint, and left his hand free for testing...