Word: thumbnailed
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When they trimmed his nails, Hughes insisted that they leave his left thumbnail about a half-inch long and squared...
...That's my screwdriver," he said. "Don't trim my screwdriver too short." He used his thumbnail to flick pages in his documents, and to tighten loose screws or make adjustments in his movie sound equipment or other appliances...
Alberta Arthurs gave a thumbnail sketch of today's Harvard students, prefacing her description with the caveat, "You have to realize that I'm speculating, I'm guessing, I'm generalizing, and I may be wrong. If there are undergraduates here, they would undoubtedly correct me." And then she said of today's undergraduates...
...slim blue brochure that falls open like an accordion to reveal a thumbnail photo on each of its rectangular faces (among these are Bok, the chair's namesake George Seferis and an ancient Greek coin labeled "The Cost") was printed this summer. Apparently, that's about the extent of Harvard's participation in the campaign for funds. When asked if the University Development Office was actively arranging for the chair, Charles D. Thompson '48 replied that "actively is a funny word; my office is handling a lot of programs at this point" and conceded that, unlike with other programs...
...London Times called it "the cheekiest of parliamentary guides," but a few members of Britain's House of Commons have been less complimentary about The M.P. 's Chart. The 83-page booklet is a collection of irreverent thumbnail descriptions of British politicians written by Manchester Evening News Correspondent Andrew Roth. In Roth's updated pocket guide, Andrew Faulds, a Labor M.P. and former actor, is dismissed as "tall, bearded, rude, sextrovert." Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher rates a more splendid oxymoron: "blonde, stainless-steel Dresden china." Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe is characterized as a "middlebrow, U.S.-style show...