In one exchange, an officer asks, "Did you punch that one-legged guerita?" and another replies, "I was about to kick her in her fucking nub".
Though each leg was at least one-third gone, Nimble's bones continued to grow, causing painful lesions on the skin covering her tender nubs.
Maybe "kick her in the nub" is a police code phrase!
I notice the bags under her eyes, little dots of heat rash on her cheeks, and the nubs where her right middle and ring finger used to be.
In the end, it isn't Ms. Cho's outré sexual fantasies but her personal experience of racism that forms the nub of her outsider's humor.
Her baby, on the other hand, barely even has a nub on her little face.
"When you watched her work — relentless on the phone, gnawing her fingernails to the nub, a perfectionist on the keyboard — you'd think: a workhorse, not a showhorse," said Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times.
And then, before taking a swipe at Sanders for a vote he made fifteen years ago that had loosened certain derivatives regulations ("I'm not impugning your motives"), she threw in a line that is the nub of her defense and, in many ways, of her entire campaign: "I know this game.
Ms. Ellico has put her finger on the nub of the matter.
The nub of her charge is this: bad TV - cartoon violence, cheap exploitation and empty commercialism - is bad for children.
