Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, on Sept. 18, Jefferson broke his wrist. Some scholars think that he may have been feeling frisky, and that while strolling with Maria, he took a playful leap that was too much for his 43 years. In any case, the daily expeditions ceased. By the time Jefferson was well again, Maria had gone back to London...
...plane trip four years ago, a seatmate told John Burton Tigrett about a new toy. It was simply a roll of paper on a stick. With a flick of the wrist the paper coil would shoot five feet into the air and snap back into position. Tigrett, an easygoing Southerner who had long made a hobby of buying up patents, tracked down the inventor, bought his patent for $100 plus royalties, and started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual...
Battery Watch. An electronic wrist watch that eliminates 30 parts found in ordinary watches and keeps "perfect" time was exhibited last week by the Elgin National Watch Co. of Elgin, Ill. The watch motor is the smallest ever built, runs for a year on a peanut-sized battery. Elgin plans to market the watch in about 18 months for $200-$500, expects it will be "some years" before the watch can be brought down to the $50 class...
Their leader made another speech. "Gold," he demanded. "The only damned gold we have is my watch," Captain Stanton snapped, ripping it off his wrist and handing it over. The pirate chief ordered two of the crewmen who had accompanied Stanton to hand over their wristwatches...
Test Case. In Chicago, Board of Health President Herman Bundesen, long an outspoken foe of jaywalking, tried it, got a broken wrist...