Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flexible Finger. The Moho was discovered in 1909 by Seismologist A. Mohorovicic of Yugoslavia, when he noticed that the speed of earthquake waves increases suddenly at a certain level under the earth's surface (the depth varies from place to place). This suggested that the Moho marked a dividing line between different materials. Geologists believe that the Moho is the bottom edge of the granite and basalt that forms the lower layer of the earth's crust; under it is the earth's mantle consisting of a mixture of silicates and nickel-iron, which in turn encloses...
...wears an alarm wrist watch to remind himself when to stop talking, but no one can remember a time when he ever heeded it. He likes to get up before women's clubs, fix the ladies accusingly with his blue-grey eyes. "Ladies," he says, wagging his finger at them, "why do you drive such big cars? You don't need a monster to go to the drugstore for a package of hairpins. Think of the gas bills!" No audience is too small for him. Caught in a taxi in the middle of a St. Louis traffic...
...reducing tensions." Schmid and Erler talked for three hours with Khrushchev. Afterwards, Khrushchev indicated that Socialists might be easier to get along with than Konrad Adenauer. But Socialist hints that they would be willing to take West Germany out of NATO got no response from Khrushchev. Waving a stubby finger at the two Socialists, he said bluntly: "Let's be honest. No one really wants German reunification. No one!" With equal force, Khrushchev ruled out any attempt to unite the 54 million West Germans with 17 million East Germans by free elections (that would mean, he said, that...
...formal censure of the 1956 Suez invasion, which he described as a "disastrous act of folly almost without parallel in our history." Nor was ailing Tory Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden alone to blame, he went on: "There were others involved, and they were not ill." Jabbing his finger at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Gaitskell cried: "I believe that the guilty men are sitting there on those benches. It is time that they were brought to trial...
...promoting Colonel Grivas to lieutenant general (only the King is a full general), awarded him full pay of $300 a month for life. Political parties besieged him to join them-but he put them off. First he had to rest, to have three teeth pulled and an injured finger treated...