Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward the pool-side bar to make a short speech to the American students of Operacion Amistad, a government and Havana University sponsored program which brought 200 members of the National Student Association to Cuba free of charge. My public relations girl grabbed me firmly by the wrist, plowed through his retinue of friendly brigands and their assorted hardware, and deposited me in front of Fidel...
...curved in a possessive embrace; in the upbeat La Marie-Vison, about the perils of coveting a mink coat ("There must be other ways for a girl to keep warm"), he expressed the wisdom of the cafes in the lift of an eyebrow, the cynical, gallic turn of a wrist...
...Clinton boy dragged Bobby Young across the street to a flat, where Bobby fell dead. "Skinny" Krzesinski staggered and crawled to another nearby building, knocked on a door, reached up to the girl who answered the knock, gripped her wrist tightly, and died...
...Gonzales, never seems to tire on the court. More important, he is beginning to match Gonzales' ferocious concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an overwhelming brand of tennis. Flatfooted, he can hit a backhand with a flick of his powerful wrist with so much top spin that the ball seems to zoom off the turf like a maddened hornet...
Thin strips of radiation-sensitive film, to detect over-exposure to ionizing radiation, will be worn by some University employees starting this morning. The Radiation Protection Program provides the wrist and chest film badges which are to be worn by people working in radiation-sensitive laboratories and other areas...