Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorts of assignments by "them stupid bastards on the city desk." Said he: "I should be shooting eight-foot hollyhocks." So he walked into Managing Editor Ed Stone's office and quit. P-I staffers threw a party for him, and the management gave him a wrist watch. Even "them stupid bastards" were sorry...
...years' supply of nylons, a 1946 Mercury, a Knabe piano, a $1,000 fur coat, a round trip to New York with a weekend at the Waldorf, a Tappan kitchen range, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator, an RCA Victor radio-phonograph, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a Bulova wrist watch, a $1,000 diamond ring, maid service for a year, two complete men's wardrobes, a two-week vacation in the Canadian Rockies...
Soft Skin. A witness faced the prisoners. He was Dr. Franz Blaha, a Czech surgeon-whose wrist tendons had been cut at Dachau so that he might never practice again. Said Blaha: "Orders frequently were received at Dachau for skulls. Teeth counted a great deal. ... It was dangerous to have a soft, fine skin or good teeth. . . . Soft human skin was prized for leather and bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched...
Flashlights and wrist compasses were standard fukuryu equipment. They could communicate with each other up to 16 feet apart by using breathing units as megaphones, up to 1,000 feet by knocking pieces of metal together. Planned, but not yet built at the war's end, were reinforced concrete underwater dens where crouching dragons could lie in wait for ships. At war's end there were 4.000 fukuryus at Yokosuka, of whom 1,200 were fully trained...
...action begins on the transport when Captain MacDonald steps to the deck, looks at the luminous dial of his wrist watch and says...