Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allen, a minus 36 handicap player who practiced 45 hours each week this summer, used the Chinese penholder grip--thumb and index finger wrapped around the handle, with three fingers behind the paddle. His quick offensive strokes symied the Crimson...
...destiny to change all that, and he began early. At that time, student cellists were taught to bow with their arms close to their sides, even holding a book under their armpits as a method of instruction. Casals tried bowing more freely and also began experimenting with the fingering of the left hand, which in the old tradition used to zip up and down the finger board like a yoyo. The changes may seem trivial, but these techniques revolutionized both the playing of the cello and its stature as a solo instrument...
...unhostile. He nodded, reflected, took off his spectacles, put hand to chin and studied me a while, knocked out his pipe-ash on the round cork knob within the center of a pewter bowl, looked out the window with a weary sense of aging decency, pressed thumb and finger to his brow in old and practiced sense of sorrowful exhaustion. He said to me this: "Of course it's so of course it's not correct. It isn't right for some of us here to have so much, and others have so little. It isn't right...
...care if their country is half as rich as France or Germany-as long as they do not have to work as hard as Frenchmen or Germans. Says Koestler: "The same lovable bloke who risked his life on D-day to keep the country free would not lift a finger at the Ford plant at Dagenham to put the country back on its feet...
...cells (top), which have about 150 finger-Like protrusions on their surfaces, produce the antibodies that lock onto invading cells and other foreign bodies, making them more susceptible to scavenger cells. Tcells, which have only a handful of protrusions on their otherwise smooth surfaces, proliferate, flock to the site of an infection and attack the invaders directly, destroying them chemically...