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...coming thing in continental transportation, however, is hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...
Silvera started the game because regular receiver Yogi Berra's previously injured left thumb swelled up as a result of Reynold's sterling pitches...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, he declared, the Navy was under the thumb of the two other services, who "may have a landlocked conception of national defense." Unless "corrective action" was taken, Crommelin planned to resign and "fight this potential dictatorship from without the service...
Later, when Jesse became a superintendent, he found things less pleasant. Educationally, Kentucky was near the bottom of the nation's list ("Thank God for Arkansas," people used to say). The schools were often under the thumb of dictatorial trustees "who couldn't write their names, who would not know their own names if they had been printed on road signs...
Beginning with the rusty old excuse of a fire at sea, Lagoon beaches two little British tykes, aged seven and eight, on a deserted, gorgeously Technicolored island. Twelve years later, the girl (Jean Simmons) and boy (Donald Houston) are still trying to thumb a ride back to civilization. Meanwhile they have put together an attractive, cabana-type dwelling in a palm tree, a charming dinner set out of coconut shells and assorted Polynesian oddments, and some fetching tree-bark sarongs for Jean. Unfortunately for the audience, the young couple has long since run out of anything interesting to talk about...