Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fingers Pointed. Ike Eisenhower himself had helped scale down the armed forces' original demand for $18 billion to the figure set by the President: $14.2 billion. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson had instructed Eisenhower to cut that down further to $13 billion and had taken most of the credit for the economizing. When Johnson was booed for hacking off military muscle, he had pointed an innocent finger at Ike, insinuating that the whole idea had been Ike's. In fact, the various versions of the unpopular 1951 defense budget, said Johnson, had been known affectionately around the Pentagon...
...Eisenhower was pointing the finger right back. The Senate subcommittee on defense appropriations promptly sent for him. This week he would be questioned further as to how far he thought criminal unpreparedness had gone. Congress looked forward...
Then for 20 minutes Dr. Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, fiftyish, principal of Radford School for Girls in El Paso, Tex., waggled her finger and told St. Louis Rotarians what was wrong with U.S. parents and education. According to Dr. Templin, too many parents "pass the buck. Fathers alibi too much . . . take the path of least resistance, are too indulgent . . . lack integrity, brag at home about business deals, even though those deals have a tint of shadiness to them . . . It shows up in the children, who view ethical wrong as getting caught, ethical goodness as getting by." Parents let religious education...
...military and naval hospitals. He had behind him the documented findings of the Hoover Commission, which were studded with instances where one branch of the service reared up costly hospitals in areas where another service had long wards of empty beds. Who was blocking these reforms? Last week the finger pointed in a surprising direction: at Rear Admiral Joel Thompson Boone, a veteran of 36 years in the medical corps who spoke with one of the Navy's most respected voices...
...nature," declaimed the dead-serious News, "no censor hobbles sportcasters . . . [But in] parlous times ... it behooves us to know who are working at the microphones and whether they . . . might be subversive or convert themselves into mediums of communication for an enemy that might strike overnight." Not pointing "the finger of suspicion," the Sporting News nevertheless recommended: since labor leaders, scientists and teachers get loyalty tests, why not sportcasters...