Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August is right. These blind kids are different. They resent the pity, the implied superiority, the power that normal vision gives to the sighted. Seeing through their other senses, they catalogue the weaknesses of their teachers and parody them mercilessly. They have a simple rule of thumb: a teacher is on their side when they circumvent the puritanical rules set up by Dr. August, or an ally of the blindness of those who can see. Some of their teachers are them selves blind, but the same rule applies...
Brown's pitcher, Bruce Bartsch, kept the Crimson batters under his thumb, but he could not control his own wildness, issuing seven walks and hitting two batters...
Infant's first search for gratification is limited to release of hunger tension-oral phase. If there is no nipple handy, he puts thumb in mouth. Next comes satisfaction from defecation-anal phase. Third, pleasure from sensation in sexual parts-phallic phase. (Association of sexual gratification with reproduction-genital phase-does not come until sexual maturity.) Beginning about age two, the child's emotional attachment to mother leads to wishes to displace father-Oedipal feelings (the older, more rigid concept of an Oedipus complex is now frowned upon...
...large American company . . . and might easily be used by the Communists for propaganda purposes to damage the prestige of the United States," the hearings were secret; only Judge Barnes's testimony was made public. But other testimony leaked out. In it, jobbers gloomed that they are under the thumb of Fruit Dispatch. United Fruit's sales subsidiary. "There is no escape from
...timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy League degree was assumed to be part of a U.S. diplomat's equipment. In such company Canadian-born Angus Ward, who spoke with a Scottish burr and who had no degree at all, stuck out like a sore thumb...