Word: thumbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixth round Champion Zale had a bleeding lip, red welts over both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped bone in his right thumb. Graziano's only apparent wound was a bloody nose. Groggy but still game, Zale suddenly launched a tigerish attack on Rocky's midsection. The challenger crumpled, gasping for air, and a following left hook floored him. When he finally got his wind back, he jumped up full of fight, but it was too late...
...president in charge of advertising. Schooled at St. Mark's and Yale, he served an apprentice, ship in the paper-box industry, was an Army colonel in World War II. As yet he has had little chance to show whether he has inherited his father's Midas thumb...
...American front, Perón's fortunes were low. His attempt to blackmail the new Bolivian Government by holding up needed wheat shipments had flopped. The U.S. had stepped in, agreed to send Bolivia enough wheat to see the year out. Paraguay had slipped from under the Argentine thumb, showed some stirrings of democracy. Chile and Uruguay were going ahead with democratic election campaigns. Perón's dream of a Bloque Austral (southern bloc) had folded-for the moment. But Juan Domingo was still trying. Last week he signed a new trade treaty with Ecuador...
...fine crease of is grey flannel trousers, moving his foot until the cuff rested properly on the laces of his shoe. He tugged at his shirt a bit until the cuff made the correct distance from the end of is coat sleeve. He measured the distance with a crooked thumb. Then he moved his head up and down until his shirt collar fell snugly beneath his Adams-apple. He glanced at himself in the glass of a picture. It was fine...
...combat as a divisional psychiatrist, Dr. Maskin found that the time-consuming techniques of psychiatry had no place amid the rush of war. The psychiatrist had to improvise rules of thumb, apply them quickly and uncritically. He made enormous concessions to the basic military problem of cowardice and took a hardhearted view of most soldiers who complained of "nervousness." In fact he discovered that some neuroses are perhaps desirable. "Resentment can be a militarily useful frame of mind despite its personal painfulness. Frustrate and goad a man sufficiently and he will become indifferent to his own fate and ignore...