Word: thumbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lane missed eight games with a broken thumb, and shortstop Seth Davidson (.356, 34 RBI) sat five games with a pulled quadriceps...
Head Coach Scott Bradley got the thumb in the third game when Santilli was the plate umpire. He asked Santilli not to talk to his players, who were complaining about balls and strikes, and Bradley was tossed after demonstrating his dissatisfaction with Santilli's explanation...
Head Coach Scott Bradley got the thumb in the third game when Santilli was the plate umpire. He asked Santilli not to talk to his players, who were complaining about balls and strikes, and Bradley was tossed after demonstrating his dissatisfaction with Santilli's explanation...
...relationship between age and computer literacy. My father takes about an hour to type out a paragraph-long email, I can with difficulty design a spreadsheet, my twelve-year-old cousin has his own website. In fact, recent articles in technology journals like Wired and PCWeek worry that "Nintendo thumb" in children might prove an early harbinger of future RSI troubles. Podolsky sees this exponential growth in computer time behind what has been perceived as the ephemeral public life of RSIs. "In the past," she pointed out, "it was a bigger deal in grad schools." While the RSI Action Group...
DIED. WENCESLAO MORENO, better known as Senor Wences, 103, ventriloquist who created impish dummies out of his thumb and forefinger; in New York City. As a schoolboy in Spain, Moreno began using his hand as a puppet to amuse himself while in detention for answering for absent friends during homeroom roll call. On the '50s and '60s variety shows of Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, among others, he delighted audiences with sweetly silly exchanges. The often cranky Pedro, a disembodied head in a box, usually answered Wences' inquiry as to whether he was "all right" with a casual...