Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than the list price; they can and generally do charge less. What the buyer really needs to know is the wholesale price-the price that the dealer pays the manufacturer. Dealers and manufacturers are not required to reveal wholesale prices, and they don't. A rule of thumb is that compact cars are marked up 21%, regular cars 25%, and luxury models 27% to 29%. Therefore, the wholesale price can roughly be figured backward from the list price. Example...
Sweet Sounds. Johnson, standing with Díaz Ordaz throughout the 2½-hour ride, fairly floated in the tumult, holding his hands above his head like a victorious prizefighter or making an "O.K." sign with circled thumb and forefinger. "I've never seen anything like this anywhere," he exulted from the steps of Los Pinos, home of Mexican Presidents. "I've always known the Mexican people were generous, stimulating people, but I never saw such inspiration and stimulation as in those faces. I think it was the most wonderful reception I have ever had anywhere...
...rule of thumb that dictates regular-season disaster for the team that burns up the Florida Grapefruit Circuit squished the Harvard baseball team last week. After winning five of six games against Rollins, Florida Southern, and Stetson Colleges, the Crimson nine was upset in its Eastern Baseball League opener at Penn...
...their talents in a sex farce. Surprisingly enough, it is an amiable, entertaining fiction and nowhere near so scandalous as life itself. As a young French widow with an infant son, Leslie oozes gamine charm in the direction of her boss, Robert Cummings, a child psychiatrist who sucks his thumb under stress. Beatty, in his first light comedy role, shows an unexpected flair for foolishness as Leslie's Greenwich Village neighbor, baby sitter and maker of stag films. "My movies are not even a felony," Warren insists. "They're only a misdemeanor...
...instead of two separated lines, from the base of the index finger to the base of the pinkie is known as a "simian line" (see diagram). It occurs with many disorders including mongolism and some rubella (German measles) defects. Also unusual is a radial loop pattern pointing toward the thumb in the ridges of any finger other than the index...