Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least for 1942, is Akron's national Soap Box Derby, and the tournaments that precede it in 120 U.S. cities. As embarrassed as if they had to tell them there is no Santa Claus, spokesmen for the Chevrolet company, which puts up the prizes (college scholarships, automobiles, wrist watches, etc.), broke the news to U.S. youngsters. Alleged reason: shortage of rubber and metals for scooter wheels...
...Harlem side streets and the hilly, wooded section of Central Park next to Harlem, bands of Negro and Puerto Rican boys prey on playing children, robbing them of bicycles, skates, wrist watches, clothes. When they rob a man, they often take his pants to forestall a chase...
...United States' policy appeasement and wrist-slapping, brings up shades of Chamberlain at a time when we should abandon our present attitude for a definite warning to Japan backed up by the guns of our Pacific fleet. Our two-faced stand in the Far East will not help us in the least. From Tokyo yesterday came assurances that if we would like to make a few more concessions, a conflict with Japan could easily be avoided. These "concessions" would amount practically to a desertion of Great Britain. But we know that Japan will continue to act as she sees...
...rider misjudged his horse's pace. Men, horses and white sombreros went sprawling. One rider dropped his false teeth. When the horsemen picked themselves up, one hobbled off on a sprained ankle, another required three stitches in his gashed leg, a third had to have his cracked wrist put in a cast. But Captain O'Brien collected the remnants of his riders, completed the drill...
...cumulative, picked up fatally second by second through several years. The machines at G.E. are housed in windowless buildings with 18-inch concrete walls to keep any death-dealing X-rays from getting out, and every worker in this laboratory carries an X-ray plate strapped to his wrist to give warning if he is unknowingly exposing him self...