Word: finger
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Says Boeing Airplane Co. President William M. Allen, National Chairman of the United Community Campaigns of America : "It's not something you can put your finger on. Wherever there's a situation which leads a community to focus on one objective and makes it work together to achieve it, you can't help but score a gain in community spirit. If Seattle is now doing its job for libraries and civic centers and other aspects of a dynamic city, it's in a large measure because it has learned to do it for children...
...Reuther, in an address sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union, at New Lecture Hall, carefully distinguished between support of the national ticket and blanket approval of the Party. "We have not endorsed the Democratic Party," he said, "and I have never lifted one finger to help a Dixiecrat." He emphasized that the UAW and other labor unions consider only the issues in giving their support to political candidates...
Angus Wilson is a social satirist with an itchy trigger finger. The novel is his shooting gallery, and the characters he sets up as targets not only have clay feet but clay minds and clay hearts as well. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is his longest, cleverest and most annihilating display of literary marksmanship to date, and after it is all over, what hangs in the air is the acrid odor of an unrelenting misanthropy...
Songwriters' Case. The accusations brought in unsworn testimony by the ASCAPotentates: 1) BMI (which is owned by 600 broadcasters, including all major networks) owns or subsidizes more than 1,000 music publishers and through them has influence over rising entertainers; 2) broadcasters also have a heavy finger in the record pie through RCA Victor (related to NBC) and Columbia (a CBS subsidiary); 3) wherever possible, the stations plug BMI tunes, ignore ASCAP tunes on the "sinister" premise that (as a BMI pamphlet once put it) "the public selects its favorites from the music which it hears, and does...
...Sixth Finger in Five Finger Glove is heavily larded with insipid humor and seems more thumbs than fingers, at the Plymouth...