Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where Is Man?" [TIME, April 11] is so wise-so eminently wise (to paraphrase Quiller-Couch on Newman's Idea of a University) -as to deserve being bound by every college student "for a frontlet on his brow and as a talisman on his writing wrist...
Wiping a carbon-black wrist over a sweaty carbon-black brow, another worker said: "This Marshall aid has got my thanks." A third said: "It's given us a breathing space." A plant official echoed: "Marshall aid saved us from catastrophe." He spoke as simply as if he were saying: "Unless I breathe...
...week of the year when the average citizen was really close to the Federal Government. He had to be. No matter how much he wriggled, the Internal Revenue Bureau would grab his wrist, yank him off balance, hiss for quiet, and take his jelly beans away from him. If he tried to hide them, he ran a good chance of having his marbles, jackknife, ocarina and super-magnifying atom ring confiscated, and his pants warmed with a shingle...
...pinned Connors (H) with a reverse head hold and body press at 6:48; 165-pound class--Longaker (P) decisioned Thompson (H). 6-1; 175-pound class--Priolean (P) pinned Claflin (H) with a front grapevine at 8:54; heavyweight class--Houston (H) pinned Finney (P) with a further wrist with arm hold...
...team will be further strengthened if Doug Anderson's sprained ankle heals enough to allow him to play the entire game. The cast over the third line wing's broken wrist doesn't bother his playing, but the ankle injury, sustained in the Dartmouth game, kept him on the bench during most of the Princeton game...