Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wearing a long, extra long, shiny gray suit, white shirt, thin red tie, short hair, and, notable among his expressionless features, straight-staring, hard-looking eyes. While speaking, he lines up his green blotter with the bottom of his desk. He runs his thumb along the ridge to make sure the blotter edge are even. Then he places his square pen stand in the bottom right hand corner of the blotter. That leaves him, finally, with only my information sheet, with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with...
...formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp's disjointed Nude Descending a Staircase went on view at Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show. The gaunt, enigmatic Frenchman proceeded to thumb his nose all the more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, made reviewers dizzy with swiveling patterns driven by electric motors...
...vote would result in a stricter alternative. The ruling clique is suppressing all dissenting opinion, and commanding a network of spies and informers throughout the country. Finally, they are capitalizing on the captive vote of soldiers, civil servants, and teachers--all of whom are under the junta's thumb...
...looking, he said, for defensive substitutes "who won't hurt us". Of greater concern at the moment is the questionable starting status of fullback Bob Gray, who injured a hamstring against Tufts. Then, too, junior goalie Rich Locksley reinjured his thumb in a second half collision with a Jumbo forward and may not play...
Hampered by a jammed thumb, Locksley managed to hold Tufts to only two goals in the first half, and Harvard led, 3-2, at the whistle...