Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listens, sometimes fiddling absently with a cap on a 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...
...Ghia, which was first shown last year-a simple, squarish grille, sweeping lines, and not too much cluttering chromium trim. But the Dodge is a brand-new car. Designed as a two-place sports car, it hugs the road like a lizard, features four headlights and a horizontal, propellerlike rub rail sweeping entirely around the car. Chrysler has no idea of mass-producing its new cars, but it did say that some of the graceful designs may find their way into future Chrysler products...
...lunch and dinner. The reverse of Harvard, where freshman life in the yard, Brown relegates the newcomers to scattered dormitories 100 years old. From there, they all trudge daily to the "Refree." While once the fraternity boys isolated themselves in their own "off-campus" dining room, today they rub elbows with the commuter and independent--if just at meals. Living in houses distinguished only by the greek-lettering over the doorways, the chapter man's one concession from the university is the questionable privilege of eating in a private room which projects off the main dining rectangle...
...taking up Trieste, he recalled how Pietro Nenni, 'now leader of Italy's fellow-traveling Socialists, had once, while in the Foreign Ministry, instructed Italian diplomats to press for a Trieste proposal that Nenni now opposed. It was a telling point, but Pella did not try to rub it in. Instead, he faced Nenni and said simply: "Those were instructions that redound to your honor...
...financial columnist for the Boston Post, Washington Waters often sounds like an irrepressible optimist. "The stock market," says his column, "may truly be a kind of Aladdin's lamp which will produce great riches for those who know how to rub it." But the rub, as Washington Waters is well aware, is knowing how. Waters knows. He is one of the few financial columnists in the world who can write about the stock market that way with real authority. By rubbing the lamp the right way himself, he has amassed a fortune of $20 million plus in stocks...