Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it is impossible to stand except in the center of the room. EUR][ One half of an abandoned garage was rented to a sergeant and his family for $50 a month. There was no bath, no toilet, no water. When a rat bit off the index finger of the sergeant's six-month-old baby, the landlady refused to let the sergeant's wife use her telephone to summon...
...public print. Newspapers and radio stations were forbidden to interview strikers. Other unions were not allowed to hold public discussions of the strike issues or on the emergency regulations. Anyone giving aid & comfort to strikers or their families was threatened with jail. But police did not lay a finger on the Red bosses...
Robert A. Vogeler, recuperating from the same kind of Darkness-at-Noon proceeding, put his finger on the probable Czech motive for the Oatis conviction. "They snatch an American citizen," said Vogeler, "and hold him prisoner until our State Department coughs up ransom . . . We are the greatest country and we continue to crawl." To get Vogeler out of jail, the U.S. went along with the Communists' snatch & ransom plot, forked over several million dollars worth of industrial concessions to the Hungarian government. What ransom do the Czechs want? Among the guesses is that they want the U.S. to shut...
...fail to follow Mr. Acheson's line of argument that it was expedient, at Yalta, to give Russia a legal claim to a finger so as to prevent her from taking a hand. How was it possible for Roosevelt and Churchill to furnish Stalin with a "legal claim" to territories over which neither America nor Britain had any jurisdiction whatsoever...
...week's end, New York Daily News Columnist John Crosson put his finger squarely on the main reasons for the leaks. Said he: "New York friends of Vice President Barkley . . . are turning a cold, hard gaze on current maneuverings of certain high Democratic strategists to dump the Vice President as Harry Truman's running mate ... So let's have an end to this sneaky attempt by political schemers to sell Alben short. He's solid-and still aging in the wood...