Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should think probably so," Acheson responded. Then Bridges pounced: "Would you consider a friend of a person, convicted, say, of perjury in connection with a treasonable act and found guilty, a security risk?" Acheson flushed: the shoe fitted nobody present but himself, and no Democrat lifted a finger to help him out of it. His eyes bulged coldly. "I think that's a matter you would look into," he said...
...operators. The miners had worked out a way to beat the Taft-Hartley Act injunction, which was designed to handle labor disputes in a national crisis. While Welly Hopkins received the congratulations of friends, President Truman took the only course that was still left open to him. Shaking his finger with mild indignation at the union and the operators, he asked Congress for authority to seize the mines. The power he asked for could put the mines under Government ownership until July 1, 1951. With such a chilling prospect before the operators, Lewis knew that...
Pressure. "I was ordered to stand facing the wall upright at a distance which allowed me to touch the wall with two fingers of my outstretched arms. Then to step back some twelve inches, keep my heels touching the floor, and maintain balance only with the contact of one finger on each hand. And while standing so, the interrogation continued ... I recall that the muscles on my legs and shoulders began to get cramped and to tremble, that my two fingers began to bend down under the pressure, to get red all over and to ache, I remember that...
Once again Vera Walush was hauled out and put on the stand, a bizarre figure in a fur coat, blue dress with sequins, platform shoes. Her neighbor, Bessie Baron, who used to supply her with bootleg alcohol, testified Vera had told her that she had had to put the finger on Joe and Teddy or the cops would have "run me out of business." Blowzy Vera squirmed and twisted through her story, insisted sullenly: "I know dey was da killers...
...Good That Way. For nine weeks Chief Justice Thomas Lynch of Cook County Criminal Court went back over the record. Last week Judge Lynch finished reading his summary and made his decision: Marcinkiewicz should also go free. Shaking his finger, the judge warned: "You know what 99 years is, don't you? Well, now stay out of trouble...