Word: thumbnailed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thumbnail analysis of the Reagan tax-cut plan is not too difficult. It is designed to appeal to the two groups who gave him their strongest support in the election past--simple folk, who have been told time and time again that government is robbing their money to give it to poor people; and calculating people, most of whom own large economic enterprises. The first group won't be helped much, for the only government officials climbing down from their backs will be the ones who sign social services checks; the second will be helped enormously, for, in the current...
THEY HAVE THIS CONTEST at Dunkin' Donuts. Buy a coffee or a cruller and you get a small, rectangular card. Back in the car, coffee resting on the floor, scratch the little wax squares off the card with your thumbnail; some luck and you've won "Tic Tac Dough." On the back are the odds against winning--an even chance would require drinking something more than a million cups of coffee...
Miraculous as it may be, the tiny silicon "chip" that is at the heart of today's electronics revolution has certain drawbacks. Crammed with thousands of individual circuits and components, this computer-on-a-chip is only about a quarter the size of a thumbnail. Yet despite the minuscule dimensions of these circuits, the time required for electric current to traverse them places a limit on how speedily the little computer can make its calculations...
...live within a traditional framework that has been imposed on them and that they have accepted, even though they know it is false and unhealthy." He does not qualify these generalizations by quoting the people he categorizes, nor does he attempt to make their bitterness understandable with even a thumbnail sketch of the age-old conflict between Irish Catholics and British Protestants. The book's narrative begins in August 1976 with the founding of the Peace People movement, but Deutsch gives only passing, superficial treatment to the history of bloodshed and tragedy...
Coach Joe Restic provides the following thumbnail diagnosis of Colgate's woes to date: "They run the same type offense as last year but they just don't have the same type people. The thing that has plagued them more than anything else is turnovers...