Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argentina had a President flouted tradition by serving consecutive terms; never before in Argentina-or any other country in the hemisphere-had a woman been groomed for Vice President. For the smashing of such precedents, a mere Peronista party nomination (to be had at the crooking of a finger) was not enough. The nomination had to appear to be a reluctant surrender to the irresistible popular will. Huge crowds and tremendous noises were required. Therefore the rally. The scenario called for the mob to shout for Perón & Perón until all Argentina had heard well. After that...
After turning up all sorts of skulduggery in the RFC, Congress last week pointed an accusing finger at SEC as well. Charged a House Judiciary subcommittee: SEC had given special and favored treatment to United Corp., a $38.7 million public-utility holding company, and ex-SEC officials had moved into five top jobs in the company...
...Ready for the opening of school next month, Chicago department stores are featuring: for kindergarten, coonskin caps; for finger-painting class, dusters and smocks; for boys of seven and up, a ten-way suit with jacket & pants to match, extra pants of another color, a vest that is a solid color on one side and plaid on the other...
...grislier practitioners of the 17th Century were Thomas Wilmot and William Cady. Once when a lady's ring refused to come off her finger, Highwayman Wilmot cut off the one to get the other; when one lady swallowed her wedding ring to keep it from his clutches, Highwayman Cady slit her belly open and took the ring anyway. Nevertheless, such ferocities were few, especially for an age that hanged a man as promptly for simple theft as for murder...
...blonde wife Eve and a sinewy French mechanic, making love. Harry's friend squeezed his eyes shut, but his mind ticked on furiously. "How could Eve prostrate herself in that atrocious way! What lunatic filth presumed in that man's upstart mind to lay a finger on her!" Suddenly, he "felt like murder." Harry's friend might not have been so homicidally inclined if he weren't secretly in. love with Eve himself. As for poor old Harry, he was off pounding tennis balls somewhere while his wife played love sets on the beach...