Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the chamber, Italy's legislators sat tense and silent as the solemn Premier asked formal approval of his new, slightly reshuffled cabinet. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti beat a nervous finger tattoo on his desktop. The party's L'Unita that morning had threatened: "The opposition will know how to ram De Gasperi's lies and provocations down his throat...
Father Heithaus waggled a warning finger at the white Catholic "who rises with a face set in the hard lines of racial anger or hate and shouts: 'Would you want your sister to marry a Negro?' " For that question, he had another question and a sharp answer...
What, then?or who?was holding up the President's decision? If there were voices inside the Administration counseling against the H-bomb, they did not make their arguments public. Many a Washington correspondent pointed the finger at retiring Atom Boss David Lilienthal, who last week characterized all such stories about him as "inaccurate," but was careful?on security grounds?not to say just where he did stand...
...Century Finger. The Tormentors is motored by two main ideas: 1) that the unjust ultimately suffer more than their victims, and 2) that in a society where brutality is normal, one man's kindness cannot undo the evil to which the society has bound...
...British Author Cargoe's book these ideas come to only intermittent life. Too often there are weary, philosophizing digressions, and sometimes the writing becomes as hysterical as the characters. The Tormentors never does more than point a journalistic finger at the mid-century horrors he has to tell...