Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenth inning, the Mets' Bud Harrelson was thrown out in a close play at the plate while trying to score on a fly ball, and an apparent New York triumph dissolved with the jerk of umpire Augie Donatelli's thumb...
...Spring of 1972 which helped bring about Bok's new system, or the withdrawal of a large gift by a donor who deemed the University's policies as a shareholder unsatisfactory (this recently happened at Berkeley, according to Farber)--these precedents probably will be the rule of thumb...
...success as a futurist was based on a supreme confidence in man's worst instincts. For Wells, an atheist, theological good and evil did not exist. Original sin resided in the pinkish gray folds of the brain and expressed itself through brutish linkage, which operated the prehensile thumb. Given tools enough and time, Homo sapiens would turn the most charming toy, the most fetching theory, into a weapon...
...commentator said, Hunt Hall is "a thumb in the eye" of the Yard, then Memorial Hall must be the wart on its nose...
This statement endangered Richardson's confirmation. The Committee questioned the unknown prosecutor's ability to investigate while under Richardson's thumb. The attorney general designate retracted the statement, and promised the prosecutor complete freedom. A few days later, Cox was picked. When he operated as University trouble shooter, he demanded complete autonomy. It is unlikely he would have accepted the Watergate post without a similar guarantee...