Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-aged man-eater (Rosalind Russell), arrives at a Caribbean resort with her nixed of kin: a husband (Jonathan Winters), dead for a decade, who hangs taxidermically immortalized on a coat hook in her clothes closet, and a son (Robert Morse), arguably alive, who at 25 still sucks his thumb and sleeps in a set of Dr. Denton drop-seat pajamas. Forbidden by Mamma to leave the suite or even answer the telephone, the son is delightfully alarmed to discover that his hotel womb has a view. Specifically, the view includes the resident baby-sitter (Barbara Harris). But when...
Such contortions, of course, might not be necessary if Bob Seagren could remember to flick the pole back with his thumb at the moment of release-as does Competitor John Fennel. "But that's instinctive with me," admits Pennel. "I just do it automatically. Bob hasn't been vaulting as long as I have." The fiber-glass pole apparently is not a factor in Seagren's troubles, but one problem may be the stickum with which Bob, like most vaulters, coats his hands to help him grip the pole better on his approach. Still, Seagren insists that...
Most adoption agencies no longer insist that applicants must be affluent and childless. In Texas, families with incomes as low as $3,000 have been allowed to take children, and Los Angeles County has placed some with families on relief. The old thumb rule that the parents' combined ages could not exceed 80 is largely gone. California and several other states have permitted a few unmarried women to adopt children...
...authenticity of poster accounts is as gnawing a problem for foreigners as it is for the Chinese in the streets. After nearly a year's practice at poster exegesis, Sinologists have developed some rules of thumb. When such officials as Mao, Lin Piao or Chiang Ching are quoted directly, the gist of their remarks is likely to be true. So are reports of high-level government meetings and accounts of the arrests of individuals. Less reliable in their detail are reports of bloody clashes, though they undoubtedly indicate that trouble of some sort took place. Attacks on individuals named...
There they stood, ranging on up to 6½ ft. tall, bulging with the kind of muscles it takes to bend a railroad spike between thumb and forefinger. Their team had already won its fifth National Football League division championship in seven years, and chances were, they could hardly have cared less that they still had one regular-season game to play against the Los Angeles Rams. So why were they doing pushups, and running wind sprints? Could it really have been because a chubby pipsqueak with glasses was screaming at them: "You don't have any pride...