Word: thumbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expel every student caught defacing a book. But in view of the wholesale destruction of bound newspaper copies, the cross-hatching of back examination forms, and the tendency to question the statements of unpopular authors with ink and bad taste, the library staff may be forced to apply thumb screws where simple warnings fail. However, even the most stringent regulations would only tax the ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come from the students, who are, in the long run, the victims of their own stupidity. A badly defaced book not only annoys...
...Crimson's dinghy branch of its Charles River fleet last Sunday got out from under the thumb of the M. I. T. boatsmen when they stopped the Techmen's Fowle Trophy regatta streak at five wins and captured their first major dinghy victory since the spring...
When Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale meet in the ring, bloodthirsty fight fans get what they pay for. Before knocking out Rocky last fall, Middleweight Champion Zale acquired a cut lip, red welts around both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped thumb bone and such weak knees that his handlers had to hold him up in the shower. What Tony and Rocky did to each other in last week's return bout, to the loud delight of 18,547 fans, was something to behold...
...cause of the revolt was a very personal matter. Romero, a scapegrace distinguished by the possession of eleven fingers (double thumb on the left hand), had been sentenced to a 16-year prison term on a charge of raping a local taxi dancer. He sought vengeance on the judge, the prosecutor, the cabaret owner and the taxi dancer. Three hours before his fatal gun battle with MPs at Calapan's airfield, he said to the parish priest: "Bless me, Father, for I will...
...Louis and his five-week-old heavyweight (15½ Ibs.) son, Joe Jr., met for the first time. Joe said, "He's sure big." Joe Jr. put his thumb in his mouth...