A HANDFUL

Slang

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Crosswords: A HANDFUL

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She reminds me that I have publicly acknowledged that as a young Marine officer in Vietnam, I did, on a handful of occasions, smoke marijuana. (The Sum of All Fears; writing credit: Paul Attanasio)

I just assumed you curled up with a handful of dirt from your homeland and waited 'til dawn. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Bart's such a handful, and Maggie needs attention, but all the while, our little Lisa's becoming a young woman. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I couldn't get laid in a whorehouse with a handful of fifty-dollar bills. (G vs E; writing credit: David Burris; Janice Engel)

A handful of Colonials prevail, but we will soon find them. (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Glen A. Larson)

A Handful of Dust (1974)

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Books

• You Bet Your Tomatoes: Fun Facts, Tall Tales, and a Handful of Useful Gardening Tips (reference)

• Decline and fall ; [and], Black mischief ; [and], A handful of dust ; [and], Scoop ; [and], Put out more flags ; [and], Brideshead revisited (reference)

• Leadership Is A Crock -- How A Handful Of Clay Transformed An Entire Community [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• The Stricken Field (A Handful of Men, Part 3) (reference)

• Destination: Israel: How a Handful Rag-Tag Flyers Helped to Save a Newborn Nation (reference)

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April Tidwell holds a handful of quail eggs on the Manchester Farms near Camden, SC. Credit: USDA.

A handful of rock from drilling operations of William Besson, mining prospector, near Winton, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

During the thick of the fighting at Buna, an Australian infantryman receives a handful of grenades from a fellow soldier inside the tank. American tanks manned by Australian crews, carried large quantities of grenades which were distributed to the infantr. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel.

I should like to see a shade grasp a handful of ashes.

They allowed a handful of foreigners to subject them.

He took a handful of sand from the bottom and scrubbed himself with it.

One man says, in his despair or indifference to life, take up a handful of the earth at your feet, and paint your house that color.

Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or rather woman, or rather Alfred -Get your skirt on Alfred!

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Health

For example, only a handful of States have actively undertaken programs to shift the primary site of LTC from institutions to the community. (references)

Between early pregnancy and the first months of life, one cell divides to form first a handful of cells, and then hundreds, millions, and, eventually, billions of cells. (references)

Business

These are just a handful of examples of the many successful chains. (references)

Currently, only a handful of China's ports are able to effectively manage container traffic. (references)

By mid-1998 all three major railroad lines had been concessioned, with only a handful of short lines to go. (references)

Children

China

However, according to the SFPC, only a handful of doctors have been charged with infanticide under this law. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burma

Since 1997 the Government has issued few visas to foreign journalists and has held only a handful of press conferences on political subjects. (references)

Malaysia

Many of these demonstrators later were acquitted, but a handful were convicted, with sentences ranging from 1 to 3 months in addition to a fine. (references)

Economic History

Ecuador

Most stock trades involve shares in a handful of banks and companies. (references)

Armenia

The Armenian stock market is embryonic, with only a handful of companies trading locally. (references)

Canada

A large number of Canadian industries are dominated by a handful of companies that are highly concentrated geographically. (references)

Human Rights

China

According to the SFPC, a handful of doctors have been charged under this law. (references)

Sierra Leone

Diet and medical care were inadequate, and only a handful of toilets were available for use. (references)

Croatia

Only a handful of claims by ethnic Serbs for reconstruction assistance have been fulfilled; however, during the year the Government took several positive administrative steps. (references)

Political Economy

HUNGARY

Hungary is one of a handful of countries that has never defaulted or rescheduled its foreign debt. (references)

ALGERIA

The Cabinet decided that, with a handful of exceptions, all of the country's 937 state-owned firms will eventually be sold. (references)

RUSSIA

Because of the law's provisions and Russian companies' lack of familiarity with such measures, Russian companies have only been able to file successful actions in a handful of cases, mostly safeguards cases. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

Analysis by NGO's of the voting roll used in the national elections also revealed irregularities, such as deceased persons on the rolls, multiple voters registered under single identity card numbers, and other anomalies; however, according to most observers, there is no evidence that these irregularities significantly affected the results in more than a handful of races. (references)

Trade

Zimbabwe

Project financing is available from two Zimbabwean development banks and a handful of venture capital companies. (references)

Uzbekistan

The NBU and a handful of other large state-owned banks, which serve largely as channels for government-directed lending, dominate Uzbekistan's banking sector. (references)

Travel

Azerbaijan

A handful of clinics offer Western-standard medical care, including International SOS, the Turkish-American Medical Clinic, and MediClub. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "A HANDFUL": a handful of people ♦ take a handful ♦ take a handful of ♦ taking a handful. Additional references.

Greek 

είμαι ζωηρός (be a bit of a handful). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקמוץ (clench a fist, grasp, take a handful), לחפון (take a handful). (various references)

Hungarian

nehezen fegyelmezhető gyerek (that child is a handful), ez egy megátalkodott gyerek (that child is a handful), csupa aduja van (have a handful of trumps). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

一掴み (a grasp). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひとつかみ (a grasp). (various references)

Pig Latin

aay andfulhay

Scottish

m� m (hill of a round, large round hill, slowly rising form, the full of the two hands of any), grunn , grunnan, dòrlach (a good deal, handful, sheaf of), cnumhagan. (various references)

Turkish

tutam (cluster, cut, nest, pinch, smack, soupcon, sprinkle, sprinkling, tuft, wisp). (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: handful.

-2 letters: faunal, landau.

-3 letters: aland, fauld, fauna, hadal, lauan, uhlan, ulnad.

-4 letters: alan, alfa, anal, auld, dahl, dhal, dual, faun, flan, fund, haaf, half, hand, haul, hula, land, laud, luna, nada, ulan, ulna.

-5 letters: aah, aal, aha, ala, ana, and, dah, dal, duh, dun, fad, fan, flu, fud, fun, had, hun, lad, nah.