Word: thumbnails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Enterprise Institute on 17th Street and gathered round the chief just the way they used to do it in the real Cabinet Room. There was a little more laughter this time, but then Ford called them to order and asked them, one at a time, for a thumbnail report on the state of the world in the areas they had controlled in more glorious days. 'Tin delighted that the Carter Administration has adopted your aircraft-noise program," Ford told William Coleman, who used to be head of the Department of Transportation. The new people were reaping...
...bigger than a thumbnail, but its outsize heart is beating strongly. Under its thin, transparent outer tissue, the disproportionately large brain is clearly visible, and the frail, curving backbone appears to end in a tadpole-like tail. Arms have already formed, along with a thin network of blood vessels, a darkly pigmented eye, and features that will soon be transformed into mouth, lips and ears. Miniature webbed fingers can be seen forming within a paddle-shaped hand. Only 40 days after its conception, this tiny, throbbing bundle of life is recognizable as a human embryo...
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...
...only reason I could figure out why he used his thumbnail," said Margulis, "was that it did away with handling a screwdriver, which might have germs on it. Handling inanimate objects had developed into a complicated ritual. When you were going to bring him a spoon, for example, the spoon handle had to be wrapped in Kleenex and Scotch-taped. Then you would take another piece of Kleenex to hold the Kleenex wrapping, so the wrapping wouldn't get contaminated. He would lift the wrapped spoon off the piece of Kleenex you were holding it with...