Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family might band together on a waterproof wrist watch or small portable radio. Almost 90% of the sailors and 75% of the soldiers want the wrist watch, making it the most popular single item. More than 75% of the sailors went for radios, even though they are banned at sea. (Portable phonographs are also popular in the Navy.) The radio, if sent, must be really small because no overseas package should be bigger than a shoebox nor weigh more than six pounds...
Finding that there were almost no books on artistic anatomy, Bridgman began to compile his own. He wrote a whole book on the human hand, carrying around a batch of wrist and finger bones in his pocket and earnestly examining them at odd moments on subways and in restaurants. At home he kept a hand pickled in glycerin and carbolic acid, studied it for weeks until putrefaction forced him to bury it in the garden to the horror of his Negro gardener. Once a taxi driver, aware of his interest in cadavers, appeared on his doorstep with a dismembered human...
...operation: two canals are fashioned In the muscles of the arm, one in the flexors, one in the extensors. The surgeon marks out a two-inch square of skin above the elbow or wrist (on a handless arm), cuts it at the top, bottom and one outer edge. Then he rolls the upper and lower sides of the skin into a little tube and stitches them together. This leaves the underlying muscle exposed...
...rooming house, arrested William Briscoe, to whose shoe the string had stuck. In St. Paul, officers of the Moose Lodge learned their safe had been stolen when police returned it. In Cleveland, Richard Pearse slept undisturbed in his car while thieves took three wheels and a spare, removed his wrist watch from his arm, one wallet from the inside of his coat, another from his hip pocket. In Denver, burglars left a note in Edward V. Dunklee's house: "Sir: Your beer is putrid and your cigars are terrible...
Before she took off, Atlantic Flyer Jim Mollison lent her his wrist watch, saying, "For God's sake, don't get it wet. Salt water would ruin the works." Author Markham kept the watch dry, but she cracked up in a Cape Breton bog. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic, eastwest. But even Author Markham could not fly the Atlantic every...