Word: nubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact by catching the sharks and selling their fins to rich Chinese, who prize fins as aphrodisiacs. But the shark fishermen pay a price for their enterprise: scrabbling over the beach to tend the drying fins, each shows the stump of a leg, a maimed hand, the nub of an elbow...
...Greece, Johnson's assignment was particularly sticky. On the theory that the Greek economy, long supported by the U.S., is now well able to sustain itself, the U.S. has cut to the nub almost all aid except money for military hardware. To Greeks, this seems almost a form of international treason, as if the U.S. were throwing an ally to the wolves. It was up to Johnson to explain the U.S. position...
Most of the answers to Elvis, recorded by girl singers, start out the same ("Yes, I'm lonesome tonight"), but they respond in different ways to what turns out to be the nub of Elvis' complaint: "Honey, you lied when you said you loved me." Not at all, bleats Songstress Thelma Carpenter, with the air of a forgiving wife: "Deep in your heart you know who lied." Songstress Jo Ann Perry is ready to meet Elvis halfway ("Elvis, darling, come back to me/ I swear faithfully/ The curtain will never come down"), but she tries to shift...
...contemptuously dismissed Dmitri as "the Sir Galahad of Photography," denounced his campaign as "the most damaging thing that has ever happened to the art of photography"; it was as if the Metropolitan "went to the sign painters' union for its paintings." Besides, said Steichen, getting to the nub of the controversy: How could anyone tell from one or two entries whether a photographer had been guided by art or accident? "Some of the finest photographs of the last war were taken by automatic cameras mounted on the machine guns of our planes...
...Iannucci, 45, listed as an assistant in research pathology in Yale's personnel directory, actually the man in charge of keeping and handling dogs for medical researchers. The accusation was that on moving dogs to Yale, he had given them injections of barbiturates to knock them out. Nub of the state's case was that Iannucci (who once ran something that he called the Junior Animal Shelter in Hamden, just outside New Haven) had bought animals from dog wardens in adjacent towns for $2 or $3 each, had then sold them to the Yale bureau of purchases, which...