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...Thorndike, who examined the arm, said that it would not be safe to play until the ligaments were completely mended, for fear of a dislocation. The injury occured at Cornell Tuesday night, when an opposing player accidentally yanked Lowman's wrist...
...pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because he would...
...harassed early days when Kurt Ludecke was about the only Nazi who had plenty of spending money, his good cronies Hitler and other future Nazi big shots called him "Der Amerikaner." This nickname came from his familiarity with the U. S., his smart clothes, wrist watch, nervy wit. He was, said Hitler, half-facetiously refusing him permission to make soapbox speeches, ''too much of a swell.'' Later, when Nazi officials had limousines and champagne, the nickname still stuck-but with a shadier meaning, derived partly from Ludecke's too thoughtful awareness of U. S. anti...
...McCarthy indicated that sterilization at Beloit under Lulu Coyner was roughly the equivalent of a slap on the wrist at more conventional finishing schools; that school records showed one girl was sterilized because she had a bad temper, others because they were "incorrigible," "obstreperous" or partial to "fights;" that parents' pleas seldom influenced Lulu Coyner's and the board's decisions to incapacitate almost one half of her charges for childbirth...
...wrist pulse, or my thigh, instead of my head? Will I think and twist this thought and that all night? Will I never sleep? Is this the climax...