Word: thumbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pulling the String. The British were not unaware of what the Russians were up to. Though embassy and trade staffs of most big nations round the world are generally believed to shelter some espionage agents, the Soviet Union goes to extremes; a rule of thumb, at least in the U.S., is that 25% of Soviet embassy staffers are involved in intelligence activity. Most of the 105 expelled by Britain indulged in fairly routine if clandestine and illegal information collecting, and all were under surveillance by the British. A number of the Soviets were involved in industrial espionage-ferreting...
...travel, hitchhiking by air is both adventurous and free, and has become popular enough to be declared illegal in Denver. To investigate the underground's airline, TIME Reporter-Researcher Marion Knox packed a small red suitcase, two books and a purse holding $120 and set off to thumb her way to Los Angeles. Her report...
...life was as good as his word. The year after The Star of Redemption appeared, he noticed the first signs of a creeping paralysis that immobilized him within two years. Inexplicably, it stopped before reaching his vital organs, but left him with the ability to move only his right thumb slightly. For Rosenzweig, that was enough. With his wife next to him, he would laboriously point out letters of the alphabet to spell words, eventually turning the words into essays, books, even bits of music criticism, which he did as a hobby. Still more incredibly, he found time to collaborate...
...were at Mach 1.9 and still picking up speed; 9:16 and ten seconds ... 20 ... 25. The pilot raised his thumb in a gesture of triumph. A few seconds later we were flying at twice the speed of sound -which, at our altitude of 50,000 ft., came to nearly 1,300 miles an hour...
...rates could stop the upturn in home building that has so far helped propel the modest economic recovery. Further, the rise in long-term interest rates indicates the financial community's lack of confidence that the Nixon Administration's policies will eventually defeat inflation. A rule of thumb in the credit markets is that the "basic" interest rate on long-term borrowings tends to hold unchanged at 3%; the actual rate is 3% plus the prospective rate of price inflation. At minimum, the current situation suggests that the U.S. economy has already received all the help...