forehandedness

Dual-named Point Comfort and Fort Monroe is becoming a dual travesty against national memory and sea-rise forehandedness, meriting long-delayed national attention.

Further evidence of Republican confidence and forehandedness came with the announcement of the President-elect's preinauguration tour of South America, one continent where he has never been.

Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness.

Even the widow herself, Katharine fancied, leaned a little toward this "forehandedness," since she made fruit-cake six months before it was to be eaten; and on that memorable night of the storm had actually produced for each child a piece of the same sort of cake, meltingly luscious and moist in one's mouth, with the statement that it had been baked just seven years before.

By their forehandedness and their clear perception of what they must do, the Federalists, as the proponents of better government styled themselves, had a slight tactical advantage.