Word: thumbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noisy Brooklyn Dodgers. Umpire George Barr called Pirate Bob Elliott out at home, and got not-too-gently pushed for his pains. He promptly ordered Elliott out of the game. When Manager Frank (ex-"Fordham Flash") Frisch hurled a caustic comment from the bench, he too got the royal thumb. Elliott drew a $50 fine from National League president Ford Frick; Frisch was fined...
China agreed to give up her "sovereignty" of Outer Mongolia (a poor land with less than 1,000,000 inhabitants) where Chinese rule has been shaky for 50 years, and purely nominal since 1924 when Outer Mongolia came under the Soviet thumb...
Then, although he speaks fluent Japanese, Mashbir merely gestured with his thumb for Kawabe to move on toward towering, German-born Major General Charles A. Willoughby. Kawabe and Willoughby saluted like automatons, and the American brusquely led the Japs to waiting staff cars...
...made of steel and leather, weighed about ten pounds. On the end of it was what the Army cheerfully calls a "miracle hand"-a black-gloved affair with a thumb and forefinger that spring together when the good arm jerks some leather thongs strung across the body like a conductor's signal cord. The thongs are hard to wash, and the boys say that they soon begin to smell. The arm can be fitted with a pair of hooks with which, after much practice, a man can button himself up, tie shoelaces and lift up to 20 pounds...
...Thumb Error. Near Placerville. Calif.. escaped Convict Eric Launblad took to the highway, finally thumbed a ride, was promptly nabbed by the driver: the prison warden...