Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Claims. A month ago Nasser fired off a note to the Sudanese government of Premier Abdalla Khalil demanding that the Sudan immediately hand over to Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain...
...could have saved Todd did not lift a finger on his behalf-Sir Roy Welensky, the burly Prime Minister of the Federation and overall leader of the United Federal Party. Welensky is worried about his party's electoral chances if the opposition tars it with the label of "liberal." He was also determined to leave the Southern Rhodesians to their own struggles. As Whitehead patched together a new Cabinet that included Todd, and neatly balanced the party's opposing factions, Welensky was off on a vacation...
...blob of finger paint all over a sheet of paper. And, without half trying, can spatially extend it over his body, his tee shirt, his shoes, dungarees and, unless restrained...
...both reins in one hand, crossed in my palm. I twist a forefinger around a lock of the horse's mane. I never have a tight rein because the horse would rear up. He has to have a free head, but you have to have that pull on your finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate, you gather him up and set the bit in his mouth...
...died out in the Christian West-probably the last to use it regularly are the all-but-extinct Shakers. But, as shown on these pages, among the peoples of Asia dancing is still an organic and important part of religion; each step and gesture, even a finger's tilt, may be loaded with metaphysical meaning. Costumes are designed according to ancient and elaborate convention: in a classic Indian dance drama called Kathakali, the makeup alone often takes from early morning until late in the afternoon. The music accompanying dancers in the East ranges from the Kathakali's ceaseless...