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...imposition of martial law, the entire stock of one butcher consisted of half a dozen large salami sausages, which housewives eagerly bought in slices. The hooks that in better times had held dangling sides of beef and pork were being used by one Warsaw butcher with a green thumb as supports for a philodendron that was growing across the ceiling...
...Stones absolutely tore up the Hartford Civic Center Monday night with a slashing two-and-a-half-hour set that was simply too magnificent to be broken down and analyzed song by song. From the opening riff of "Under My Thumb" to the final grunt of "Satisfaction," the old men of white R and B proved that they still command the most powerful live punch of anyone on the concert hall stage...
...Series been so taken over by a proprietor without propriety. With Jackson out (strained calf muscle) and New York winning, the first two games in Yankee Stadium were artistic occasions for appreciating the resident third baseman, Graig Nettles. Before Game 3 in Los Angeles, however, Nettles' left thumb began swelling from a slight fracture, and he sat out the next three games. Other small earthquakes awaited the Yankees in L.A., including real ones. "What were you doing during the earthquakes?" Steinbrenner was asked. "I was stamping my foot," he said. Nothing earthshakingly wrong with losing to Fernando Valenzuela...
...tiddley training camp is in the Student Center at Tech Square. When I arrived the winkers--as they call themselves--were gathered around some three-by-six double-felt mats that serve as their playing fields. A jock with thumb muscles as taut as steel shot me a cold look from behind his thick glasses. There wasn't another well-toned muscle on his body, but those thumbs were the stuff of awe. Arye Gittleman's thumbs are the biggest and most skilled in the game. For those who don't know already, Gittleman--MIT '83--has a rippling dynamism...
...book reads surprisingly smoothly, despite its heavy technical content. Gould, who won the 1981 American Book Award for Science for his collection of essays called The Panda's Thumb, gracefully mixes statistics, technical terminology and anecdotes to make for an eminently comprehensible volume...