Word: finger
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...notebook, as many Harvard students now do, extra care should be taken regarding the liquid-crystal display (LCD) screen. Poking the screen with your finger nails or a pencil, for example, could result in a hole on the screen, and replacing an LCD could incur some not insignificant expenses...
...wife. Abouhalima conducted many smoky gatherings in their home, where groups of Egyptians would sit and discuss politics in Arabic, which Soika did not understand. Soika says she was left with the impression that Mahmud worked in some kind of "underground," but she couldn't put her finger on it. "He never said anything about it directly," she says. "But I could well imagine...
...nursing care around the clock, and even the distinguished Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge, a seat once held by Newton, doesn't pay enough to cover it. A victim of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS), Hawking can move only some facial muscles and one finger on his left hand, which he uses to pick out words on a computer touch-screen attached to his motorized wheelchair. He can search through the computer's dictionary by selecting the first letter or two of a word or by choosing from a menu of frequently used phrases...
...arteries," he recalls. "I got to a window, and it wouldn't open. I got to another one and hung by my hands. It seemed like a lifetime." Despite 60 hours of burn surgery, doctors doubted that Redstone would ever walk again. His tendons were destroyed, his little finger partly amputated. Yet 14 years later, he not only walks but plays tennis with a ferocity that unnerves his opponents...
...know that some critics have bemoaned that the sharp cover can cut your finger, dripping blood all over your pristine white plate and scaring off your lunchmates...