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An ell , Anglo-Saxon eln , was a rough reckoning, being the distance from the crook of the arm to the end of the longest finger, the elbow being where the bow or bend occurred.
Curiously, Richard Nixon, that archetype of political deceit, provides no ready example of résumé rewriting--unless you want to count "I am not a crook."
It is unclear from that exchange whether Glassman understands even now that his famous calculation involved naive double-counting--he certainly did not concede any mistake--but an embarrassed Crook saw no point in continuing the discussion.
Hopi ngölapki the crook of longevity > Walpi
Journalists, senators, and special prosecutors have made sure that even the most ill-informed among us knows that Nixon, this complex man who invaded Cambodia while opening up China and invented racial preferences while singing the praises of the Silent Majority, was a crook.