Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy chair, and should not eat out of the same dish as his master. After a man has become "thoroughly familiar with the leash, one end may be hooked to the dog's collar and the other end looped securely around the man's wrist so he cannot get away." As for giving a man a bath, Ford says a dog should jump in the tub himself, with all fours, splashing the man as much as possible, then jump out and shake the water off his coat and on to the man. After that, "run around the yard...
Protective Custody. In Milwaukee, Burglar Robert Jahn went out on a job, sprained his ankle jumping in an office building window, cut his wrist breaking a glass door, telephoned police for help...
...Frenchmen shuffled their feet and watched Elmer, who was nonchalantly strapping an evil-looking husking hook to his right wrist. At last the speech was over, and Elmer strode into the cornfield. He seized an ear or two, ripped the husks open with his hook and tossed them into the wagon. One of the Frenchmen spat. Then Elmer took off his shirt. "Okay, Thorson," he called to his companion, a onetime Iowa farmboy now clerking at the U.S. Embassy in Paris...
...sleek, sausage-shaped ferret named Mookie. The three tiny bells on his neck tinkling, Mookie was launched down the rabbit hole. The Jagermeister (hunt master) watched intently as Mookie's master raised his gauntleted left arm and spoke soothingly to the malevolent-looking hawk tethered to his wrist. "Steady, Diana. Steady, pretty girl," whispered the hunter. Diana's pale yellow eyes glared balefully at her master...
...heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees. Diana spotted the quarry almost instantly. When the rabbit was about 75 yards away, Falconer Wolfgang Stehle suddenly called "Habicht frei" (Hawk free) and released the thong which bound straining Diana to his. wrist. Wings pounding for quick altitude, Diana flashed after the rabbit. Closing fast, she wheeled into a vertical bank between two fir trees and plummeted downward for the strike...