Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nick. In Franklin, Ky., police got a telephone distress call to hurry "out to my house because something awful is about to happen," sped to the address, found, crouched behind the sofa, Billy Kratzert, 4, who pointed a trembling finger at his baby sitter, said: "She was going to spank...
...spectator-dotted beach south of Cape Canaveral an Air Force crash boat cut through the Atlantic rollers to wave off small craft. Just before lunch missile buffs spotted "the Bird" through binoculars-a slim, distant white finger pointed against the light blue sky. Bubbling clouds of evaporating LOX (liquid oxygen) obscured the Atlas as technicians completed fueling. But by 2:35 p.m. "T-time" (firing time) was close at hand...
...Hutcheson and his cronies pleaded that their answers might tend to incriminate them, crowded in under the Fifth Amendment shelter. Even when the committee established that Hutcheson is a member of the same A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council that ousted Teamster Boss Dave Beck for crawling under the Fifth, the finger-drumming witness declined to say whether he had voted for the ouster (he did). Hutcheson, it then became apparent, had his own rationale for personal behavior. Asked if he is familiar with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s code of ethics, which states that Fifth Amendment witnesses have "no right...
...basic governmental task of establishing peace and order, 2) open up industrial enterprises to people with "profit motives," and 3) suspend all nonessential economic projects, including government projects that had encouraged "thievery and pilfering." "I do not wish," said U Nu firmly, "to see the government having a finger in all sorts of economic pies...
...Whirling Finger. From the moment they crossed the Finnish border, B. and K. were patently determined to keep things dignified. With only the faintest signs of ennui, they dutifully inspected housing developments and a children's hospital, strode through driving rain to lay a wreath on the grave of Finland's late President Juho Paasikivi*. For the first 24 hours they even belied their well-earned reputation for heavy tippling. At the first state banquet in Helsinki, high-living Nikita Khrushchev limited himself to one Martini, and goateed Premier Bulganin clung firmly to a glass of orange juice...