Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Handicapper's rule of thumb: three pounds of extra weight equal a length in a mile race...
...friend, Spain's Franco, he led and symbolized Colombia's Conservative Party during its long years out of power. In 1945, when the Liberals split over presidential candidates, he pushed the Conservatives' silver-haired Mariano Ospina Pérez into office. Ospina, under the willful thumb of Gómez, felt obliged to return the favor in 1949. Clamping on a state of siege, using military police to drive Liberals from the rural polls, Ospina dutifully engineered Laureano's election...
...about Harvard itself--he has put it in a better condition than even its most exacting critics can demand. But we are worried about education, in which Conant has long been the recognized leader. Conant reached greatness by refusing to dictate policy, by avoiding the panacea, the rule of thumb and the easy answer. He reached it by . . . demanding honest and unfettered seeking after truth. He was not only the leading defender of academic freedom--he was its personification. . . . Too few have had the courage and the will to follow his example, We cannot deny a sense of personal loss...
...supplied Tortoiseshells and Peacocks on short notice, at other times have stocked the Chartwell grounds with the larvae of Painted Ladies.) Biggest satisfaction of all: Hugh's five-year-old son is already mastering the fine points of the game -"The stealthy approach, net bag between finger and thumb, the gradual moving closer and closer to the butterfly sitting on a flower head with wings outspread...
...very good," he says in his professional goulash-English. So last Christmas he announced that he would make his first public appearance as a crooner on his wrestling show. But on the big night he wrestled first-and "this bum gets me in a hammerlock, and he breaks my thumb. I was in such pain that I couldn't sing...