Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration, with the latest economic statistics at its finger tips, is convinced that the recession is in check...
...Finger Points. Unlike De Gaulle, who need not act, harried Premier Pflimlin was faced with the harsh task of demonstrating here and now his capacity to give France an effective government. In the National Assembly Pflimlin won "victory" after "victory''-including a committee vote approving his hastily drafted plan to revise the constitution so as to give the Fourth Republic stronger, longer-lived Cabinets. But when it came to the issue on which his government must stand or fall-its ability to re-establish control over the insurgents of Algeria-the only tactic Pflimlin found was to pretend...
...Adventures of McGraw (Tues. 9 p.m., E.D.T.. NBC). To the honky-tonk strains of One for My Baby, McGraw (he has no first name, is played by Frank Lovejoy) loose-jointedly saunters into view, occasionally raking his sinewy fingers through his crew-cut hair. Badmen usually underestimate McGraw, but all women smile seductively at him. He hits it off fine with most cops, who overlook his occasional infractions in the line of duty. The most human of all TV's hireling snoopers, McGraw has sometimes mistaken a crook's pocketed finger for a gun, has dived prudently...
...Road. Doubleday had thought to give its parlay some sporting zest. It succeeded too well. In flowed letters at the rate of 500 a day; out flowed free books. By the time the mails had poured in some 3,000 claims from winning bettors, the publishers nervously stuck a finger in the dike: they took a small ad in one morning's Times cautiously announcing that their "offer" (identified only by its date and page in the Book Review) would expire that afternoon, then started getting up a form letter that all bets were...
...November 1955, while working in a University Dining Halls kitchen, a chef cut his finger. Two months later he died of acute monocytic leukemia. When his widow applied for compensation, a member of the state Industrial Accident Board ruled that the chef's death was causally related to a staphylococcus infection resulting from the cut. Lawyers for Harvard have stated that medical information and "the judgment of most hematologists" do not support this position...