Word: wristing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earnestly in action, the former President departed, and a Watergate-weary nation was eager to turn the scandal over to the historians. But one of Watergate's lessons was that the U.S. legal processes, once activated, cannot be turned on and off with a twist of a judicial wrist. Already it was apparent last week that Citizen Nixon was enmeshed in criminal litigation and that the nation still faces an unwanted decision on what legal toll should yet be exacted of its deposed leader...
...pattern. Most people think that you build a skeleton and then you know whether you are going to write a dog, a giraffe or whatever. What happens, in fact, is that you do a perfect little finger, and then you do four others, and then you write a wrist. You begin to get a sense of what kind of animal it might...
Peter H. York '74, the injured student, was admitted to Cambridge City Hospital with first- and second-degree burns on his hands and face and a lacerated right wrist. He was officially listed by the hospital in fair condition yesterday, but Dr. Andrew Grimes, a Cambridge City Hospital physician, described his status as "next to excellent...
...door to his room blocked, and attempted to exit by the window. Because the lower half of first-floor windows on the street side of Lowell House are barred, York broke through the top half of his window with his fist and escaped to the street. He lacerated his wrist in the process...
...could see. There was a big swath of raw flesh just below Kenny's ribs. His elbow was swollen really big, and so was his hand. There was a deep gouge near his wrist. He showed me a big sore on his hip, and he showed me his shirt lying in the corner. It was a strip of rags...