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Word: wristed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...went on to approve the school-construction bill. After the scrap, both men tut-tutted the whole affair. Said Powell: "Cleve Bailey and I smoke cigars together." Said Bailey: "The whole thing never happened." As Bailey made the denial, he showed reporters a half-inch cut on his right wrist, his only wound in the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Symptom on the Cheek | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...would be to train bees to feed at a definite hour and then move them quickly to a distant part of the earth. If they continued to feed by the local time of their old home, it would prove that they have a timekeeping mechanism as independent as a wrist watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Constant Bee | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...lash of an eye, a flick of the wrist...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Poetry of Moral Issues | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

Yale's scoring hopes center around versatile Ken MacKenzie and first-line center Dave Ingalls. Ingalls broke his wrist in the R.P.I. Tournament during the Christmas holidays but has played regularly in the team's last five games...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Crimson Six Highly Favored In Traditional Game Tonight | 2/26/1955 | See Source »

...that she is in love again, she writes, "I tremble too much lest I should see rising, through the veil of the rain, a country garden, green and black, silvered by the rising moon which passes the shadow of a young girl dreamily winding her long plait around her wrist, like a caressing snake...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: Subjective Autobiography: The Vagabond | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

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