NFL safety Ronnie Lott had the tip of his little finger removed after it was damaged in the 1985 NFL season.

The little finger ( or " pinky ") supports the frog from underneath, while the ring finger and middle finger rest in the space between the hair and the shaft.

Bassists who stand and bow sometimes set the endpin by aligning the first finger in either first or half position with eye level, although there is little standardization in this regard.

While playing in thumb position, few players use the fourth ( little ) finger, as it is too weak to produce a reliable tone ( this is also true for cellists ), although some extreme chords or extended techniques, especially in contemporary music, may necessitate its use.

The assumption in Moscow was that once it was known that he had lost Soviet approval, Tito would collapse ; ‘ I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito ,’ Stalin remarked.

Strabo uses the astronomical cubit ( pēchus, the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the little finger ) as a measure of the elevation of the sun.

In the horizontal approach, solid bars or " bullets " are more commonly used, and the grip is overhand: the hand is not wrapped around the neck, the index finger is nearest the bridge, the little finger nearest the nut, fingers pointing away from the chest.

The bottleneck or tube type of slide is usually worn over the ring ( 3rd ) or little ( 4th ) finger.

Trackballs are generally either thumb-operated, with a ball about an inch in diameter or smaller moved by one digit ( almost always the thumb ) and the buttons clicked by others, or finger-operated, with a ball over two inches in diameter operated by the middle fingers and the buttons by the thumb and little finger.

The middle three fingers often fall along the speaker's cheeks with the little finger picking up the vibrations of the speaker's throat.

The first digit is the thumb, followed by index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger or pinky.

On most tin whistles the leading tone to the lowest tonic can be played by using the little finger of the lower hand to partially cover the very end opening of the whistle, while keeping all other holes covered as usual for the tonic.

corno torto, cornone ) was pitched a 5th lower than the treble cornett, and was usually provided with an additional finger-hole, covered by a key, for the little finger of the lower hand.

When the ball rolls out of the hand ( from the side near the little finger, as in a normal leg break ), it emerges with clockwise spin ( from the bowler's point of view ).

He lifted his boy upright in a horizontal position by his little finger and then let go until he was suspended in mid air.

The English concertina is typically held by placing the thumbs through thumb straps and the little fingers on metal finger rests, leaving three fingers free for noting.

Alternatively, both the fourth and little fingers support the metal finger rest, leaving two fingers for noting.

In the classical style of Regondi, the little finger is used as well as the other three fingers and the metal finger rests are used only very occasionally.

The nature of the opposition between liberals and Bourbons is too little understood in the North.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

The ambulance is drawn by two `` charming '' little horses.

That little spark is all the wealth I know, That little spark is my life's misery ''.

Its pretense to operate in the public interest is little more than a sham.

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

Since the slogans have little application to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the applause is faint even in areas of the world where we should expect to find the greatest affection for free government.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

Perhaps this is not so little.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

To most observers, there is little doubt that he placed an artificial strait jacket of unity upon the years of Anne's reign which in reality existed only in the pages of his history.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

The weight of fame and history is formidable, and dreary steel engravings in schoolbooks do little to quicken interest and imagination.

Start with the class standing in a circle, with weight on the right foot and the left extended a little way into the circle.

The little hamlet of Anderson was named for Mr. John Anderson who was a Director in the South Western Railroad at the time it was extended from Oglethorpe to Americus in 1853.

Also an extended range torpedo delivered by parachute from the air allowed warships the stand-off to attack hostile submarines with very little advance notice to the hostile submarine.

Black is the color of mourning, and since Cretan families are notionally considered so extended as to include great-grandparents or second cousins ( although they may have little actual contact ) as well as all their respective in-laws, one is theoretically justified to be in continuous mourning for some relative or other, however distant.

There is little archaeological evidence of early diets including couscous, possibly because the original couscoussière was probably made from organic materials which could not survive extended exposure to the elements.

" The Civil War years were particularly challenging, but the extended family survived despite little emotional or financial support from Beaux's father.

Hugh's lands extended little beyond the Paris basin ; his political unimportance weighed against the powerful barons who elected him.

Making matters worse, most of the younger players that the Royals received in exchange for these All-Stars proved of little value, setting the stage for an extended downward spiral.

Punctuated equilibrium ( also called punctuated equilibria form ) is a theory in evolutionary biology which proposes that most species will exhibit little net evolutionary change for most of their geological history, remaining in an extended state called stasis.

For many Togolese, there was little optimism for the future and a prevailing sense of déjà vu as Eyadéma extended his record as Africa's longest-serving ruler.

Central governments had little control over the region, although some Hassaniya tribes would occasionally extended " beya " or allegiance to prestigious neighbouring rulers, to gain their political backing or, in some cases, as a religious ceremony.

The river Mazarus, which at that time appears to have formed the boundary between the two states, was only about 25 km west of Selinunte ; and it is certain that at a somewhat later period the territory of Selinunte extended to its banks, and that that city had a fort and emporium at its mouth On the other side its territory certainly extended as far as the Halycus ( modern Platani ), at the mouth of which it founded the colony of Minoa, or Heracleia, as it was afterward termed It is evident, therefore, that Selinunte had early attained to great power and prosperity ; but we have very little information as to its history.

They had greatly extended Portuguese maritime knowledge, but had little profit to show for the effort.

However, as he was required to take extended walks around London to travel between his students, de Moivre had little time for study so he would tear pages from the book and carry them around in his pocket to read between lessons.

It may be computed using the extended Euclidean algorithm or using Fermat's little theorem as k < sup > q − 2 </ sup > mod q.

Use of this equipment allows the snorkeler to observe underwater attractions for extended periods of time with relatively little effort.

In August he made an extended journey south to Naples and Pompeii, where he was unimpressed with the former but delighted with the latter: " Here you live with the ancients ; you see their temples, their theatres, their houses in which you find their furniture, their kitchen utensils ..." Bizet began sketching a symphony based on his Italian experiences, but made little immediate headway ; the project, which became his Roma symphony, was not finished until 1868.

During Charles ' reign, the territories in New Spain were considerably extended by conquistadores like Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro, who caused the Aztec and Inca empires to fall in little more than a decade.

The winters often fall below freezing for extended periods, however snow remains unusual due to very little precipitation forming in the winter months.

The width of the little finger is an angle just over 1. 5 degrees elevation at extended arms length and can be used to estimate the elevation of the sun from the horizon plane and therefore estimate the time till sunset.

The novel as an extended prose narrative which realistically creates a believable world of its own evolved in China and in Europe from the 14th-18th centuries, though a little earlier in China.

A major ecophysiological advantage of lichens is that they are poikilohydric ( poikilo-variable, hydric-relating to water ), meaning that though they have little control over the status of their hydration, they can tolerate irregular and extended periods of severe desiccation.

On 18 March, after a little preliminary fighting, Coburg drew back a short distance and rearranged his army on a more extended front between Racour and Dormaal, thus parrying the enveloping movement begun by the French from Tienen.