Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shook hands genially, despite a cracked little finger which he kept in a splint. He winced a little in embarrassment when an occasional hearty Republican tried to clap him on the back. No toast-mistress called Robert Taft "my little...
...prison Rhee got the treatment considered fitting for top-rank political offenders. He was subjected to daily torture -finger mashing, beating with three-cornered rods, burning of oil paper around the arms. He wore a 20-lb. weight around his neck, was kept handcuffed and locked in stocks...
...count went on, it became clear that Vargas was running well out in front. In a matter of hours, his supporters were milling through the crowd outside, deliriously yodeling: "Ja ganhou [He's already won]!" Others spread the news by gesture, first holding up the little finger (for Vargas, known for years as "The Little One"*), then showing the extended fingers (symbolizing Vargas' next five years as president...
...case of war Russia is able to send into the field not less than 800,000 men. This immense disposable force, absolutely under the control of the Emperor, renders the power of Russia imminently dangerous to the peace of Europe." At home Harper's kept its editorial finger on the pulse of a lively, swiftly changing nation. It reported that in San Francisco in 1855, "the places of universal resort were the Drinking Saloon and Gambling House." Harper's interiewed "Wild Bill" Hickok, who was said to have killed at least 20 men in gunfights, and recorded...
Cornell, a university of great physical beauty, squats on a hill-above Cayuga's waters--in the Finger lakes region of New York State. It has a first class arts and sciences school but it takes much more pride in schools such as the three million dollar Statler School of Hotel Management, and its Schools of Industrial Relations, Home Economics, and Nutrition. The University has a Medical School in New York City...