Word: thumbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tour today (Whhhhaaaack!) is that there's just too many goddamn (Whhhhaaaack!) kids out here who cannot play. They come out of college (Whhhhaaaack!) and because they can shoot 70 on a golf course, they think they can play. (Whhhhaaaack!) Hell, half of 'em can't beat Tom Thumb with a gun. (Whhhhaaaack! Whhhhaaaack!) We got about about a hundred of those." Whhhhaaaack! Whhhhaaaack! Whhhhaaaack...
Five years ago, I had been well on my way to becoming one more of the tour's 70-shooters who "can't beat Tom Thumb with a gun," when the racism and elitism that pervades the (white) gentleman's game of golf--then thrown into stark relief by the politics of the day--had become too much to endure. Caught up in the spirit of the times, I denounced the "isms" of golf, and sold my clubs for two ounces of marijuana. "Coming back" to cover the $200,000 Pleasant Valley Classic, Massachusett's only major PGA event...
Richard Nixon's helicopter had barely touched down on the White House lawn when the tanned and smiling President bounced out and waggled a circled thumb and forefinger at his welcoming crowd. The small gesture signaled his satisfaction with the success of his trip to the Middle East. It seemed to symbolize too the widespread feeling among his aides that he had, as one put it, "turned the corner" on Watergate and was rebounding from that disaster...
...KNEW LIFE wasn't going to be easy on the outside, especially when on the morning of commencement I found that my good ol' run-of-the-mill, blend-into-the-crowd cap and gown had, presto-chango, become a considerably fancier, stick-out-like-a-sore thumb Juris Doctor gown and cap two sizes too small for my head. At the time I confess I wasn't aware of the foul-up, but when I saw none of my neighbors wearing similar get-ups, I got a little concerned. "Oh, god! I'm a freak," I thought...
...FICKLE THUMB AWARD is presented to Harvard's official scorer Arnie Graber for his outstanding work behind the screen in back of home. If you watch him closely, you'll see that when an error is committed Arnie will raise his hand with a "thumbs down" indication...