Word: callus
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There was a pol's callus on his palm and advice to young flesh-pressers on his lips: "Hit in close, deep, where they can feel it. Connect first, before they do. That's the way to make them feel the power." To a heckling crowd he showed one finger. The tough-guy style was not inconsistent with the physical man, built like a truck battery with a constant charge of direct current. Those around him learned to keep their distance. Persico describes relationships clearly signaling that one did not work for Rockefeller but served him. There were...
...SILENT for a time, looking out the window at a pigeon that was perched on the ledge. Then he looked at his right thumb, the callus which had been formed by more than fifty years of clarinet playing. "See that callus?" he said after a moment. "Slow Drag got calluses like that on all his fingers from playin' the bass...
...Berry's chapters would have delighted Sherlock Holmes, with illustrations of such occupational trademarks as cellist's callus (on the tip of the left pinkie) and bowler's thumb (with a thickened joint). But one anomaly, known among gypsy fortune tellers as "murderer's thumb," indicates nothing: a wide, short thumb and nail are found as often on professional golfers as on stranglers...
...third set-point, to win it 11-9. Playing with a concentration he had seldom shown either as an amateur or a pro, Pancho stuck to his big guns and finally won the two-hour match, taking the deciding set 13-11. Next night, hampered by a torn callus and a lame ankle, big Pancho Gonzales nonetheless beat little Pancho Segura, 7-9, 6-4, 6-4. to make his comeback official -and to pocket some well-earned cash...
Years ago, Carl Hall had told the postmaster of Pleasanton: "My hands are white as lilies-and you'll never see a callus on them." In his way, he had kept his promise...