Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Truman and Senator Taft, one of Herbert Hoover's collars). If they bring in everything to NBC's Truth or Consequences next week, the Andersons will collect a washing machine, a man's wardrobe, a diamond ring, a vacuum cleaner, a radio-phonograph, two wrist watches, a refrigerator, a gas range, a 72-piece silver service, a home freezer...
Manolete, with a flick of the wrist, will transfer the bull's attention back to the muleta. Even if the bull, as it sometimes does, starts to charge toward the man, with his horns almost touching him, Manolete can stand there and put his life in the magic of his wrist. The Spaniards call this the "moment of jurisdiction...
...armchair lecturegoer with a simple twist of the wrist can hear anything from Homer's Odyssey to an explanation of the weather by lecturers drawn from the staffs of Harvard, Boston College, Boston University Lowell Institute, M.I.T. Northeastern, and Tufts...
...Pennsylvania and a U.S. diplomat in the Balkans, survived what he said was his 15th plane crash. When the wheels of an amphibian wouldn't let down, the ship made a dry-land landing on pontoons at 70 m.p.h. Earle's injury: a scratch on the wrist...
...leave, they find no exit. Sometimes McCormick lets them stand there, in mounting confusion; then, with a glacial chuckle, he taps a kickplate in the baseboard and a panel in the wall springs open. He is enough of a gadget-lover to wear a watch on each wrist. One is a fancy computing chronometer. "Tells what day it is, too," he says. "Very convenient when traveling...