Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...additional sum, those cops who accept pay-offs (and again, reliable estimates are not to be found) are willing to overlook a number of other offenses which may be carried on at whiskey houses -- gambling, prostitution, sale of stolen items. The general rule of thumb: add $5 per man for each additional vice...
Beacons of Blossoms. Project Green Thumb, a much-praised part of the antipoverty program, resulted directly from a meeting of Lady Bird with representatives of the Farmers' Union. Now, in pilot projects in four states, retired farmers from 55 to 78 years old work three or four days a week using their know-how with the soil to carry out roadside beautification projects...
...driver's side is open. Cougar and other Ford cars have red markings on the 70 m.p.h. to 120 m.p.h. range of their speedometers to warn drivers that they are going fast. > Chrysler models have small toggle switches instead of jutting metal knobs on dashboards. Also offered are thumb switches instead of protruding knobs for radio tuning-and-volume controls...
...players had damaged hearing. Hi-fi can be a hazard with earphones, which can easily develop 135 decibels with the volume turned up all the way; but the living-room listener is safe. Ear-fearful citizens can tell when to start worrying by three Glorig rules of thumb. If a noise is loud enough to make people shout into one another's ears, or if it causes a slight temporary hearing loss, or if it brings on ringing in the ears, it can cause damage...
British Book Publisher Peter Wolfe ordered soup in an Italian restaurant, and the waiter served it with his thumb in it. Wordlessly sending it back, Wolfe wished he had had enough Italian to call the waiter "a dribbling, senile fool!" or at least snarl at him: "Tolga il suo sudicio dito dalla minestra!" (Get your dirty thumb out of the soup...