Word: thumbings
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Grasp butt lightly but firmly between thumb and third finger, stand back, aim, and let fire. The demonstration brought excellent results: two ladder cars, three engines, one rescue truck, twenty Cambridge firemen, and 300 feet of good Cambridge hose...
...added an aside: "I think I'm going to save that guy." They had cut the private's clothes off. There was a cluster of guts as big as two fists sticking out of the left side of his abdomen, though the hole in the belly was thumb-sized...
After World War I, many a school and college adopted an all-thumbs rule-of-thumb which gave veterans too much credit, put them in advanced courses for which they were unprepared. Result: wholesale flunking. Now the American Council on Education, working closely with the armed services, is taking a good long look at each of the training and off-duty courses given to servicemen and merchant mariners. George P. Tuttle, registrar (on leave) of the University of Illinois, and his small staff have already appraised hundreds of courses, expect to cover nearly a thousand before they are through. Sample...
...friends and old nursemaids, from medieval manuscripts and ancient collections, the Grimm brothers gleaned the vast leavings of literature that had been blown into medieval Germany over the centuries by the winds of Hindu mythology, Irish balladry, Gothic minstrelsy. But today Cinderella, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Tom Thumb, et al. have become so much a part of western folklore that the Brothers Grimm's labors in reviving them have been largely forgotten, watered-down, or vilified...
...contract surprised diplomats, who had long written off landlocked Paraguay as the slave of Argentine's peso-diplomacy. An oil-rich Paraguay, in partnership with a non-political U.S. company, might thumb her nose at her big and bossy neighbor down the Paraná River...