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Word: thumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced with a person who has lost a finger in an accident, most surgeons do little more than sew up the stump -though in some cases they may transplant one of the patient's own fingers, especially to replace a thumb. Russia's Dr. Viktor Kalnberz goes much further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Fingers from the Dead | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

Because finger nerves are too small for grafting, the transplanted digit has little or no sensation, and there is not much flexion at its joints. The new finger must be moved as a unit from the knuckle. This is no great drawback, particularly for thumb grafts, which have enabled patients to pick up and use tools, a pen, a spoon or a glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Fingers from the Dead | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...Left Bank, a party for a colleen celebrating her abortion, pimping in Harry's New York Bar in Paris, painting lighthouses, doping greyhounds, springing an I.R.A. mate from a British nick-all of this is mixed together every which way like an Irish stew. The stirrer has his thumb in the pot; it improves the taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Thumb in the Stew | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Oysters & Bequests. At home with his wife Kay, he preferred to relax with slippers and pipe, thumb through old auction catalogues. Occasionally he turned cook, entertained friends with gourmet Chinese dinners, including a sauce that he maintained had 99 ingredients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Double Loss | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...pieces. They handed him a 1,700-page dictionary, and he grasped it by the back and slowly tore it into two pieces, the tear going through every page and covers, without once taking his hands off. As an encore, he took a U.S. half dollar and between thumb and fingers, bent it double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 13, 1966 | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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