hard-handed
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Not before an awful lot of work, though, and Charles Crocker, the indefatigable, hard-handed railroad magnate in charge of the Central Pacific’s construction crews, looked around for people to do it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
This is definitely the right way for the hard-handed Yorkshireman to play the spinner.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2015
Two balls after Rutherford's dismissal Ross Taylor was caught at slip from a delivery on that same horribly in-between length, shaping away just enough to induce a hard-handed prod.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2013
In his 18 months as CABoss, Jim Landis had been as hard-handed on the big airlines as he was hardheaded to some of his associates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Men said he was just... and if his was a harsh, hard-handed sort of justice, well, life on the Iron Islands had accustomed Asha Greyjoy to that.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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