Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mission Accomplished. In Madison, Wis., after cardsharps had clipped him for $48, a wrist watch and a cigarette lighter, Corporal John Ramzy told the judge that he had come to town to check on reports that gamblers were fleecing servicemen...
...four by-elections last week, Canadian voters gave their Liberal government one of its sharpest wrist-slappings in 16 years of power. Opposition Tories won all four. The winners...
...arresting wire and stopped. His hook released from the wire by a scurrying, green-jerseyed deck man, the pilot taxied his craft forward, folding its wings as he went. One by one, the blue-black Panthers came in, caught the wire, pulled up like falcons brought to the wrist...
With a flick of the wrist he cut the connection, stilled the threatening harangue...
...Acute Anxiety." The medic at the door continued his record of those who came into the tent, putting notations beside names: "Gunshot wound . . . acute anxiety . . . broken wrist." Outside, the rain ceased and a single star broke through a rift in the clouds. The artillery hammered...