Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of women. He divorced his wife a decade ago and has since lived alone in a luxurious rented house in Mexico City's suburb of Chapultepec. He affects Byronic collars, horn rimmed harlequin spectacles, and usually looks fatigued. He is proud of a sumptuous gold hand-carved wrist watch given him last New Year's by President Avila Camacho. Its twin was presented to President Roosevelt...
...amused to find that wearing the prescribed summer uniform means breaking regulations. It says here distinctly that the short sleeve shall extend two thirds of the way from elbow to wrist. As for the suits, the primary rule is that the skirt should be of the same material as the jacket and MATCHING IN COLOR. Radcliffe supply officers, garbed in what was once reserve blue, then on second thought dyed a deeper shade, hope to avoid billets in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts wherein the standard for the WAVES' Navy blue is kept. We are still awaiting the arrival...
...Hogan, who used to catch for the Cleveland Indians, had only a fair day against the College boys. He drew a pass, popped to Fltzgibbons, and blasted a hit off Gallagher's glove before a Berg curve caught him in the wrist and forced him to leave the game...
Traffic Hazard. In Richmond, Calif., when Autoist Charles Foley made a slow left turn, meticulously hand-signaling out the window, he lost his wrist watch to a light-fingered pedestrian...
...Singular Merits." Herr Goebbels was exaggerating only a little when he crowed: "In the air war England holds Germany at the wrist, but in the submarine war Germany has England by the throat and it remains to be seen who will lose their breath first." In Washington, Navy Secretary Knox admitted that the Battle of the Atlantic had swung in Germany's favor in the last month. Said Frank Knox: "The situation is serious and a tough...