Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead it was, who killed the bipartisan foreign policy? Administration spokesmen said the Republicans had done it-with their slings and arrows. Last week New York's Irving Ives rose in the Senate to point a Republican finger in the opposite direction...
...Finger In Butter. The French expedition had chugged out at dawn from its downriver base. From the undergrowth ashore sounded warning signals-rifle shots that said the French were coming...
Prowska began weeping at her work. Her only reply to Mrs. Simon's anxious questions in sign-language was: "Jack kaput, Prowska kaput" and the quick gesture of a finger drawn across her throat. From time to time Prowska's hands became paralyzed. Said the doctor: "There is nothing physically wrong with her, but she is scared...
...then the two were out in front all alone, Brawner making up the gap in inch-long takes. Thirty yards from the finish, Brawner caught his rival; as they hit the final turn Brawner had a finger-length edge. Verdeur had nothing left to match his rival's closing drive, lost by four feet. The time was 2:14.3-four-tenths of a second under the official world's record, but not close to Brawner's best time (2:13.1) of the year...
Sure that he could find no doctor in time to save her life, he shot her through the head, buried her under some stones, and in the morning went on his way. From that moment the world became one long night marish finger, trained accusingly...