Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guessing Game. Feller was finally ready for the first pitch. His arms heaved from below his knees to a great overhead stretch, his left leg twisted up & around, he practically put his gloved hand in the batter's face, his right arm snapped through with as much wrist English as though he were cracking a blacksnake whip. The Yankee lead-off man hardly saw the first one that buzzed by with a full two-inch...
...East-West contrasts. Hunan 40 years ago had only recently admitted foreigners, and even substantial citizens still clung to their old ways. According to Chinese medical lore, the pulses were of prime importance in diagnosis-both the right and the left pulse, tested at three points on each wrist, each point revealing the condition of a particular organ. A freshly killed rooster helped to drive away fever. At time of childbirth, opened doors, cupboards and trunks helped to keep the birth canal open. A respectable lady did not allow a male doctor to examine her person. Hidden behind...
...conference ended with reporters leafing doubtfully through their notes, looking for something to "pin" on Stassen. The room cleared and Stassen downed a Manhattan, which he had previously moved carefully out of the photographers' range, with a dexterous flip of the right wrist...
...Master teed up against Byron Nelson, 34, the modern mechanical marvel. Most of the way, Jones matched Nelson shot for shot. Bobby's haymaker swing, accentuated wrist motion, and hula hip motion seemed incurably individualistic beside Byron's three-quarters swing, and minimum of motion...
...brothers Pasquel, aware that U.S. Baseball Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler had not said a vigorous word against them, blithely offered to make him commissioner of Mexican baseball, at the same salary ($50,006 a year). Brother Jorge, a $6,800 diamond watch on his wrist, offered to devote $20,000,000 of his and his four bachelor brothers'* money to give to Mexico top-drawer baseball. So far, he had spent only about one-fortieth of that on getting U.S. players...