Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, intellect has betrayed Mathieu. "Enough! I'm through! I'm sick of being the wise guy, the guy who always sees straight! . . . If only I could have pressed my finger on the trigger, somewhere some German would have fallen...
...report put its finger on the key fact: in the second half of 1950, FRB purchases from banks of Government bonds rose by almost $3.5 billion. In that same period, bank loans rose by nearly $10 billion (20%). That, said the report, was the critical reason for high prices, and it rose directly from "the misconceived monetary policy...
...thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed three Masses to foil Duvallon's pursuer-one in St. Peter's, one in Notre Dame, and one in Bessans' village church. With Satan hot on his heels, Duvallon hastened from Rome...
Outpointed. In Houston, after a domestic brawl, Mrs. John Womack nursed a hurt finger, husband John a broken 1) nose, 2) bone in his right foot, 3) rib, 4) pair of spectacles...
Cleveland's 67-year-old Cyrus S. Eaton is an indefatigable financier and promoter with a finger in many pies. His latest promotion is a $100 million steel mill which, if the Government will provide $90 million of the money, Eaton will build on a 1,000-acre site on the Detroit River at Gibraltar, Mich. To run the new company, Eaton has picked Max J. Zivian president of Detroit Steel Corp., in which Eaton controls 24% of the stock...