Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arraigned for judgment before the local ruler, Emir Saud ibn Jiluwi, who decreed the traditional Arabian punishment for a habitual thief: public amputation of his right hand. Salih calmly accepted the verdict and did not even flinch when the Emir's men chopped off his hand at the wrist-for he knew that he had got off lightly. If he and Juliet had been charged with their actual crime-adultery-both would have been tied into a jute bag, set afire, tossed to the ground from the highest tower in Khobar and then left...
...Wrist & Hand. "It was noted that cooperation and advice of members of Congress is helpful," said the prepared statement. However, "it was pointed out the dangers that would result if congressional committees entered into the field of foreign relations, which is in the exclusive jurisdiction of the Chief Executive...
Foster Dulles had slapped McCarthy's wrist, but he had also held his hand. Reporters surrounded McCarthy and asked about the wrist slap, and about McCarthy's new melody. How did it happen that his negotiated agreement had been reduced to a voluntary byproduct? Said McCarthy: "I don't recall what I said the other day." When a reporter pointed out that he had used the word "negotiations" (it was in the first line of his publicity handout), McCarthy asked: "Did we?" Then he headed for a holiday in Florida...
...enlisted early in the war between the sexes. In proving herself the equal of the neighborhood boys, she broke her left leg jumping out of a hayloft, her left wrist falling off a wall, her left collarbone tripping over a curb, her left arm twice-once falling off a horse, the other time when she was pushed off a chair. At summer camp, she was forever winning the cup as the best all-around athlete. When she was a freckled, scrawny 13, she put in a solid three months' practice on her diving to capture the championship of Laurel...
Last week, after signing the confession, Knobloch returned to his cell, became hysterical, ripped apart a tin can and nicked his left wrist artery, then beat on the wall, screaming: "Help me! I don't want to die!" Knobloch would not die. At the most, he might get 15 years for kidnaping. But what of Dr. Linse? Five stiff U.S. notes of protest had brought only Red shrugs. The Reds had Dr. Linse and the West had only a stupid, repentant, petty criminal named Kurt Knobloch...