Article: Thumbs-only digital control brings no joy to ham-fisted

Article: MORE THAN EVER, THUMB IS HARDEST-WORKING DIGIT
Dayton Daily News;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......speak, but it can tell everyone you're A-OK. It can't read, but it can spell. And very, very fast. The human thumb. The wonder thumb. The thumb whose time has come. It's now the preferred digit for cell phone dialing and pager messaging, video games...

Article: Thumbs-up: In the digital age, the thumb rules.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Titanic satire, Thumbtanic. ___ Thumbs in song: _ Under My Thumb, the Rolling Stones: The change has come//She's under my thumb. Arguably the Stone's most sexist ditty _ and that's...the Bathroom Window, the Beatles: And now she sucks her thumb and wanders//By the banks of her own lagoon. A silly...Fire, ...

Article: Rules of thumb.
Point of Beginning;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...When I was a young boy, I recall many times hearing the phrase the rule of thumb is ... or as a rule of thumb. I'm sure I originally looked at my thumb and wondered what a rule of my thumb could mean. As with many of us who are now sporting...

Article: Gimme Thumb Lovin'
Strings;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Unlocking the thumb is the key to fluid cello technique OFTEN...bend) on each finger of the other hand, thumb included. Start with the little finger...with three knuckles each. Now, on to the thumb. I'm guessing that you found only two...

Article: Ubiquitous thumb has a hold on all we do
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Ubiquitous thumb has a hold on all we do By SONJA LEWIS...can spell. And very, very fast. The human thumb. Its time has come. It's now the preferred...youth are dubbed, oyayubi sadai, or the "thumb generation." A study by a British academic...

Article: Thumb people don't want to put childhood behind them
Evening News - Scotland;  March 16, 2001 ;     545 words ...MY two-year-old niece sucked her thumb, tugged on her childminder's sleeve and said: "Look! I'm sucking my thumb like Auntie Julie!" Recalling the incident...plasters criss-crossing over the top of my thumb and a warning that if they weren't in place...

Article: Tips to get kids to quit sucking their thumbs
Daily Breeze;  March 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ......refuses to even try. The only time she doesn't suck her thumb is when she's at school or playing with other children...DALLAS A: One 20-year-old Arizona woman has suckedher thumb since birth and doesn't plan to quit, despite pleas from...They said, `She'll be walking down the aisle with her thumb in her ...

Article: thumb
The Oxford American College Dictionary;      327 words ...thumb / [unvoicedth]əm / • n. the short, thick first digit of the human hand...primates or other mammals. ∎  the part of a glove intended to cover the thumb. • v. [ trans. ] press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb: as soon as she thumbed the button, the door slid ...

Article: VAN DRAGGED ME BY THUMB.(News)
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  April 9, 2003 ;     434 words ......BARRETT A MAN was dragged 100 yards with his thumb trapped in a van door after trying to stop...and run driver. David Garside, 34,had the thumb sewn back on after the incident in Aintree...driver, but it slammed shut - trapping his thumb. The van then sped away from the scene...

Article: TURN TO RULES OF THUMB TO STOP WIDESPREAD KIDS' HABIT BY LISA GUTIERREZ KNIGHT RIDDER.(LIFE-FAMILY)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ......front-and-center in his dad's photo op, sucking his thumb. That's cute for now, but it might not...Kan., dentist Kelly Bridenstine. And yet thumb-sucking is normal for kids, whatever their...to stop, from the old hot-sauce-on-the-thumb trick to newfangled orthodontic appliances...

Article: Thumb splint.
Medical Textiles;  March 1, 2000 ;     565 words ......a support that they claim maintains the thumb in an optimal healing position. In US Patent...provides a means of dynamically biasing the thumb towards a healing position, thereby allowing...after surgery or following injury to the thumb and its adjacent muscles and ligaments...

Article: The elusive rules of thumb.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......front-and-center in his dad's photo op, sucking his thumb. That's cute for now, but it might not...Kan., dentist Kelly Bridenstine. And yet thumb-sucking is normal for kids, whatever their...to stop, from the old hot-sauce-on-the-thumb trick to newfangled orthodontic appliances...

Article: Advice can help parents with thumb-sucking issues
St. Joseph News-Press;  April 24, 2005 ;     458 words ......album is filled with pictures of her sucking her thumb. "My parents claim I came out sucking my thumb," Ms. Larson laughs. "It was always in my mouth...the habit lost its cuteness. "I was still a thumb-sucker when school started," she says. By that...

Article: Rules of Thumb, or DeRoTs
Distance Learning;  July 1, 2006 ;     570 words ...We all have heard of the phrase "rule of thumb," or "rules of thumb." Generally, this means a widely applicable process...fun to try to find out where phrases like "rule of thumb" come from. In today's world, if a person wants to...