Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year's number three man is Dave Watts, another veteran of the Chicago trip. Watts has been handicapped by an injured thumb, sprained in House football, but by next week he should be fit. "Muggy" Mugaseth and Dave Symmes round out the first five players. Both are lettermen from last year...
...road he runs over a nail. Psssssssss, no car. Psssssssss, no highway. The hero lies injured on the non-road. A plug pops out of his thumb and psssssssss, no hero. Nothing left, just the nail...
...until only two competitors were left in the race. The venerable international firm of Rosenberg & Stiebel was representing the Cleveland Museum of Art; James Rorimer was bidding for the Met. The gentleman from Rosenberg & Stiebel did his bidding with a gesture of the hand, Rorimer with cocked thumb reinforced with a wink. After an eternal four minutes, Rorimer winked for the last time. The Rembrandt was his for $2,300,000, the highest known price ever paid for a painting anywhere...
...Commonwealth has once again proved an old judicial rule of thumb: in battles between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines always...
...which brings us back to Mr. Reston and the thumb-rule. If the United States and Europe are to be joined in the Atlantic Community Fullbright and others envisage, perhaps it will have to be by fear of a common enemy after...