Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard moved on those first two plays and Kubacki's confidence, quickly confirmed, edged out any remaining nervousness. But then, like a recurrent nightmare, in the third play of the game, southpaw Kubacki injured a finger on his throwing hand and was taken...
...doctors x-rayed his finger for breaks during the first quarter, only one thing was on Kubacki's mind: "Oh no, here we go again." But his finger was only dislocated and, after it was taped to another, Kubacki got his chance. The rest--21 carries for 154 yards, one touchdown and one touchdown pass, and the final score, 18-7--is history...
...vice president of ITT-Sheraton in 1971, is a man obsessed with innovation and change. One of his latest schemes, unveiled this summer, involved a palm-scanning machine designed to reduce the number of non-paying persons eating in Harvard dining halls. The machine was relatively simple. The finger length, curvature and skin translucency of each student would be recorded on the magnetic strip on the back of his or her bursar's card. Then each dining hall would be equipped with a slotted scanner that would read the magnetic strip when the card was inserted and indicate whether...
...Buendorf grabbed for the hammer of the gun, trying to interpose the web of skin between his right thumb and his right forefinger between the hammer and the firing pin. In the confusion, just what happened is not clear, but Buendorf came away with a cut between thumb and finger, as though he had been caught by the striking hammer...
...visitor is to sit at C, forcing the host to move to D, where he is cut off from both telephones. Phonemanship is important too. An aggressive visitor should ask to make a phone call, settle in at the host's desk (violation of territory), and finger the phone confidently, as it is a strong phallic power symbol...