Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From there they went into "Under My Thumb," sounding more like the Who's version than their own, and a new one, "Live With Mc," Richard doing a fine solo instead of the sax. Then another Chuck Berry song, "Queenie," "from when you were about thirteen years old." The Stones oeuvre might be subtitled Anthems of Young America, and they finally cut loose on the song that made rock and roll a movement, "Satisfaction," Richard ripping off huge Chuck Berry chords and adding an cery vibrato, Jagger doing an Otis-like "I can't getta no, no, no, no," that...
...fortunes of such size not derived principally from oil. Well over $100 million came from real estate speculation conducted by astute agents after Joe Kennedy had more or less retired from an active business role. Another substantial portion-perhaps $100 million if the managers have followed the rule of thumb applied in allocating other large fortunes-is in tax-exempt securities. The only corporate entity to which the fortune is intimately tied is the family itself. There is no highly visible family business...
...According to the rule of thumb of missile strategists, one missile power takes advantage of another by attacking its silos instead of its population centers: this way, the other nation's retalitory power is immediately demolished. The ability to do this is termed first-strike capability. A non-aggressor nation, on the other hand, merely wants to forestall attack. This it does by aiming its missles at potential agressor's cities as a retalitory threat: then it protects these retalitory missiles with ABMS. This is described as a second-strike capability...
...tragedy struck the Bulldogs in their opening game with Wesleyan, as All-American goalie Steve Greenberg suffered a broken right thumb. Greenberg, picked as the nation's second best goalie last year. was sidelined...
...cities are his only constituency. We can be sure that he will persist in reminding the Administration of its urban obligations. But if the Administration is unresponsive, and if New York City's fiscal problems are as acute as they seem, Lindsay's victory will only be a "thumb-in-a-bursting-dike" holding action for New York...