Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southpaw Wind-Up. Wrist watches with winding knobs on the left side of the case for southpaws were put on the market by Hamilton Watch Co. of Lancaster, Pa. Price...
Party Line. Hungary, once a limp wrist in international competition, climbed to prowess because the Sports Ministry in Budapest's postwar Communist regime has stuck sternly to the party line that a people's democracy ought to breed winners; the politicians ride herd on the sportsmen to whip them into smooth teamwork. State doctors from the Institute for Sport Hygiene check up on training, state coaches work overtime to turn out well-drilled scoring machines. The fine eleven beat Britain's best in Budapest last May, soon after breezed into Bern and swept easily into the quarter...
...Templer had expected no fond farewells in Malaya. Yet all the way to the airport from his gubernatorial mansion, his Rolls Royce had been mobbed by cheering, affectionate Asians: Malays, Chinese and Indians. From the turbaned representatives of nine Malayan potentates, Templer got a silver cigar box. On his wrist he wore a bamboo bracelet, given by the aborigines of far-off Negri Sembilan, to ward off evil spirits. Parading before him were Chinese schoolchildren, waving banners...
...Attock at the age of eight for boarding schools in England's west country. There, and later at Marlborough, one of the top public schools, Rab acquired,an early self-reliance, a retiring manner, and a reputation for scholarship. His athletic prowess was limited by a badly set wrist, broken in a fall from a pony. To amplify the family's modest resources, he spent summers picking mangel-wurzels at 8? an hour...
Ready at a twist or two of the wrist to perform more than 100 different jobs, the new Shopsmith contains the first important improvements since the original model hit the market with a bang in 1947. The exposed drive belt, a hazard to juvenile fingers, has been enclosed, and a new speed control enables the woodworker to adjust the speed of saws, sanders, etc. simply by turning a dial to "saw" or "disc sand" in the same way a housewife adjusts an electric mixer. Price...