Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould has yet to win the Nobel prize. Harvard professors write a lot of books, but most of them appeal to a fairly limited readership. Gould, however, already has several bestselling books on biology, geology, and evolution under his belt, including The Panda's Thumb and the award-winning The Mismeasure...
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Their foremost concern was the yearning of one redheaded Everywoman to get out of the kitchen and into a job and then, once employed, to emerge from beneath the boss's thumb. She endured any indignity in search of her big chance. The greatest indignity of all, it generally turned out, was the chuckling condescension of her husband Ricky, played by her real-life husband and business partner Desi Arnaz. The confident king of the castle, he was always ready to teach Lucy a lesson. Looking back from an '80s perspective, some observers have suggested that Lucy was virtually...
...Captain Lora Rowning, playing in her second game after a six-week layoff due to a thumb injury, relieved Lee Polikoff on the mound with a B.U. runner on third base. The Terriers pulled ahead, 2-1, on a suicide squeeze...
Tufts scored the winning run in the third. With a runner on first, Co-Captain Lora Rowning relieved Polikoff. But the senior, just recovered from her thumb injury, had trouble finding the plate. Three walks later, Tufts once again had the lead...