Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nuclear weapons are reasonably controllable. At least, it would take some time and bureaucratic shuffling about before a great nation could decide to drop one. And nuclear weapons will always be under the thumb of massive, relatively rational, political units because it is too expensive for an individual to make one in his workshop...
...speaks English well, but with a thick Russian accent. He smokes a great deal (a habit he acquired at 15 when jailed for spreading anti-Czarist propaganda), holding his cigarettes in the European manner -- between thumb and index finger with palm toward the mouth...
...Lyndon Johnson's proud prejudgment, historians will record it as "The Great Congress." And so they may. But few would claim that the 89th's finest hours came in 1966. After a historic first session that passed 105 important bills, the Congress generally thumb-twiddled its way through its second session, only to burst into a fevered eleventh-hour blur of action that added little to its luster...
...speech he was about to deliver to the United Nations General Assembly. Behind him, Russian U.N. Representative Nikolai Fedorenko and his French opposite number, Roger Sey-doux, were engaged in eager conversation. As Couve read on, the two men behind him suddenly smiled and raised their hands-thumb to forefinger-in the universal gesture of happy agreement. Then Couve rose to demand that the U.S. make a "new move" to end the war in Viet...
...precise, it is more frequently encountered nowadays in the company of a twist of dry lemon peel, or probably just the stare of the lonely lady. The book remorselessly follows Rona's career from infancy (she was a whiz at toilet training, never gave trouble about sucking her thumb, and later got A's in practically everything) up to an affair with some undocumented type in nondocumentary films. She was an only child, and Mother and Father kept and treasured every single scrap of paper she ever scribbled on. Probably that was a mistake. In any case, Rona...