Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entertainment; since Moslems generally do not drink, there are no bars or nightclubs. The only excitement occurs on Friday afternoons when crowds gather in the public squares to watch the flogging of convicted thieves. If the thief is a third-time offender, his right hand is amputated at the wrist...
Stern's unfamiliar, spread-out country world seems full of traps and tortures. Night after night, as he makes his way home through a neighboring cluster of houses, two huge dogs vault a fence and savagely escort him, his wrist held wetly in the lead dog's teeth. Caterpillars munch away half of every shrub and tree on the place. "This house has been standing here for thirty years with whole shrubs," Stern moans. "We're in it a month and there are halves...
...hand, which he placed in a fading plush box and gave the title Tradition. There is a dumpy dwarf called Uncle Sam, and an extraordinarily graceful Man with a Kite. Durchanek has also done a robust George Washington, who gazes in bewilderment at a large falcon chained to his wrist. This, he explains, is the way Washington might react if he came back to America today. "I wonder what he would say. He might say, 'My, my, what a bird you've got by the tail. Where are you going...
...keep the radio spectrum clear of outmoded but garrulous space vehicles, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is turning to the small electronic timekeepers that Bulova Watch Co. developed for its Accutron wrist watches. To measure time, these timers use a transistor-controlled tuning fork that runs indefinitely on a tiny trickle ( eight-millionths of a watt) of electric power; a battery the size of a dime will keep one of them humming for a year. The whole apparatus weighs less than three ounces, and it can easily be set to turn off a satellite's transmitter after...
...state, even if the schooling is not the best. The resulting riot and weeks of disquiet showed Ole Miss to be embarrassingly short of leadership. The chancellor proved to be a don't-rock-the-boat executive who did nothing to head off the riot, and then merely wrist-slapped offenders. The faculty has for years been equally meek. Now, in a dramatic reversal caused by Student Meredith's battle, the once apathetic faculty has snapped to and set about saving Ole Miss...