Word: thumbings
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...noticeably more expensive than the English and French kits. I bought one, and every afternoon for about a week I sat at my little typing table and assembled the Fubuki, a Japanese destroyer. It was a tiny little ship, no longer than a pencil and no wider than my thumb. But it was as fine and filigreed as the inside of a wristwatch. I painstakingly painted it to look like the picture on the box and then let it sit on my desk for the rest of the semester. Somehow, for me, it still represented Japan, or at least comforted...
...agreed strongly, and 30% slightly. Most of the progress, social scientists say, has come in metropolitan areas; in the rural South, old ideas die hard. And progress has made loyalists more militant about holding onto their idea of Dixie: its history and heritage, its family and sovereignty, its thumb in the eye of Northern culture and, for some, its codes of racial superiority and subjugation. The culture of rebel remembrance was captured in Confederates in the Attic, a 1998 best seller by journalist Tony Horwitz that chronicled the fanatical popularity of battlefield re-enactments and the marketing...
Eitches alleges that a security guard grappled with him, maneuvered him into a room away from the rest of the crowd, and proceeded to hit him with a walkie-talkie, cutting his thumb, jamming his finger and spraining his hand...
Bush will decide this month whether to sell advanced destroyers with Aegis radar systems to the rich island Beijing calls a renegade province. China vociferously opposes the deal. Bush could thumb his nose at Beijing or offer less-well-equipped ships...
...course, Harvard was not helped by a recent slew of injuries that left the team shorthanded this weekend. Just this week, one player has come down with mononucleosis and another recently suffered a broken thumb...