Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Analytical pieces, the so-called "thumb-suckers," were simply too risky to try on the basis of what was available. Even such an event as the two-page, seven-picture spread on the presidential visit in Peking's People's Daily, described by resident correspondents as "unprecedented," proved an enigma. The Washington Post's Stanley Karnow thought the display was "calculated to communicate to the Chinese population the advent of a new era in Sino-American relations." But A.P. Correspondent Frank Cormier cautioned that it might be aimed mainly at irritating the Russians...
...before, most recently a proposed 40-story U.S. Steel building on the waterfront. They are now rousing themselves to oppose the antenna, most particularly a group of local law students who are trying to halt the construction in court. In their poignant description, the mast will be "a giant thumb in the eye of San Francisco...
...rule of thumb that when you show a girl a picture of herself, she doesn't like...
...rule of thumb...
...rule of thumb. Of course it's a beautiful picture...