Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several times, Clark's car conked out completely-only to start again. With one lap to go, the crowd was on its feet as the public address announcer ticked off Clark's dwindling lead. Seven seconds, six, five, four, three-and at that instant, right thumb raised high in the classic gesture of victory, Jimmy Clark swept under the checkered flag. By the barest of margins, a scant 100 yds., he had won his fourth straight Grand Prix race of the season...
...general had even tougher words for a U.S. correspondent on his plane. Said he: "I'll govern this country like a military command. If I say the price of rice should drop, what I want to see is a price drop. Even if I have to . . ." Cocking his thumb and forefinger like a pistol, he added grimly: "Twenty or thirty people...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 28: London's Grass Courts Championship by default over the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston, 22, who pulled out an hour before the match because of an injured thumb that had become so swollen that "I couldn't grip the racket...
There have been 16 ounces (Latin undo) to the English pound (Latin pondus) ever since the Romans invaded Britain MCMXXII years ago. The yard is 36 inches long because England's Henry I (1100-1135) decreed that it should equal the distance from a man's outstretched thumb to his nose. Indeed the whole British system of weights and measures is fraught with tradition, and for that reason it is frightfully hard to work with, as generations of British schoolchildren, agonizing over gills, pecks and rods, have learned...
...devoted philanthropist and sup porter of Democratic Party causes, and a warm friend of President Johnson's at whose side she sat last month at a' Waldorf dinner for party contributors. New Yorkers know her best as the city's unofficial green thumb...