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...every prudent Italian knows, it is perfectly legal and frequently necessary to fold the middle fingers back under the thumb and jab the first and little fingers down at the ground. Such "horns" ward off evil spirits. But if the fingers point upward? Ah, the corna instantly sneers that the addressee is a cuckold. The gesture is so unbearable that in Verona recently a truck driver was fined $50 and court costs for understandably lofting the corna at a madly beeping motorist...
...Prather, both members of the successful American Mount Everest expedition in 1963. After an hour's elementary instruction for Bobby, the three, roped together with Bobby in the middle, set out to the high camp at 12,000 ft. The weather closed in, and it was a hard upward grind...
Pound's work was based on the change of frequency in gamma rays--or "red shift"--as they travel upward or downward in a 75-foot column...
...Contract the muscles on either side of the nose as if sneezing, wrinkling the skin over the nose upward as hard as possible...
...Stimpson attributed these decreases, which halt a two-year upward trend, to major changes in admissions policies...