Word: thumbings
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...Majesty. King Fuad II of Egypt and the Sudan, sucked his thumb and wiggled contentedly...
...husband's painting career began, she confided, at Fort Myer, Va. (when he was on duty at the nearby Pentagon after the war). He just called for "a rag, thumb tacks and a board." The rag turned out to be a dish cloth on which he painted an oil portrait of Mamie. "I just don't know the word for it," she said...
...flew over the roof and laid an egg." The actors' scorn of domesticity is expressed in their saying: "The best marriage is the worst death." When a director wants to tell the angel that the best of plans take money, he cracks: "Without fingers you can't thumb your nose...
...rightfield stands, and the crowd sighed in relief as it went foul. Cavarretta went out on an easy fly to centerfield. The final batter worked Erskine to a full 3-ball, 2-strike count before meekly grounding out. First-Base Umpire Bill Stewart had hardly made his dramatic thumb-up "out" gesture before the whole Dodger team poured out from diamond and dugout to crowd around grinning Carl Erskine and cheer the most sparkling pitching performance Ebbets Field had ever seen...
...extemist student groups. The fat left wing element regularly denounced him as "a tool of Wall Street." This attitude was exemplified by an article in. "The Nation" by a former head of the University. News Office who denounced Conant but added that "I hardly expect the University to thumb its nose at the Wall Street bankers who now help administer its finances...