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Word: thumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KNEW LIFE wasn't going to be easy on the outside, especially when on the morning of commencement I found that my good ol' run-of-the-mill, blend-into-the-crowd cap and gown had, presto-chango, become a considerably fancier, stick-out-like-a-sore thumb Juris Doctor gown and cap two sizes too small for my head. At the time I confess I wasn't aware of the foul-up, but when I saw none of my neighbors wearing similar get-ups, I got a little concerned. "Oh, god! I'm a freak," I thought...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: The Year Off | 6/11/1974 | See Source »

...FICKLE THUMB AWARD is presented to Harvard's official scorer Arnie Graber for his outstanding work behind the screen in back of home. If you watch him closely, you'll see that when an error is committed Arnie will raise his hand with a "thumbs down" indication...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: A Salute to the '74 Baseball Season | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...Thumb (1958). A terrific adaptation of Grimm, with Russ Tamblyn, Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers. Ch. 4, 4:30 p.m. 2 hours...

Author: By F. Briney, | Title: TELEVISION | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

...must conclude that Con Edison just doesn't give a damn," Saunders said. "Con Ed thinks it is big enough to thumb its nose at the public and get away with...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Con Ed Begins Building Its Storm King Facility | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

...Marceau must have surpassed all his childhood ambitions. His show is a pure delight, so beautiful it hurts, hypnotizing entire audiences sketch after sketch, show after show. Mobilizing every muscle in that gracefully compact body--down to the muscle that bends a thumb backwards at the joint to form a right angle of it--he becomes a vital embodiment of emotions that possess an intensity and beauty one rarely recognizes in the human form, no matter how present. In his famous pantomime, The Creation of the World, expressing the inexpressible for a fleeting moment he relates visually the most ineffable...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Silent Witness to the Lives of Men | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

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