Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, another student reported that Louis had hit him with a football. This time Long used a paddle. He held Louis down on a table, hit him "14 or 15 times." When Louis tried to cover his backside with his hands, Long warned him he would get a finger broken...
...scheme which convinced the Germans that the attack on Sicily was to be only a feint, led them to weaken Sicily's defenses and so save any number of Allied lives. The odd part of it was that William Martin accomplished all this without lifting a finger. Major Martin, in fact, was dead when he was commissioned...
...front tooth with thumb and forefinger. Sometimes he picks up his heavy-rimmed spectacles and twirls them or chews the stems. Or he will play with the top of his right ear, then drop his hands to the desk to rub his knuckles and massage each finger (see spread...
...administration and their wives for snubbing the pretty young actress-bride of Yugoslavia's chief of staff just because she had not fought in World War II. Snorted Djilas: the girl was only 13 years old when the war ended. Besides, who were these wives to point a finger of scorn? asked Djilas-and proceeded to describe in unmistakable detail and almost unprintable terms the premarital practices of some of these lady war veterans. (Tito himself married a 28-year-old army major and partisan fighter...
Midget Mender. A tiny hand loom for darning socks was put on sale by Selectric Products Co., Lynwood; Calif. Called the "Darn Easy," it consists of a small slide with hooks on its underside, is shuttled back & forth with finger and thumb. Price...