Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Edward A. Tappe boarded his Capital Airlines DC-4 at Washington's National Airport one afternoon last week for a no-passenger flight to Baltimore, he saw a pink puddle on the rug between the forward luggage compartments. Thinking it might be hydraulic fluid, he put his finger in it, put the finger to his nose, and sniffed. It was not hydraulic fluid so he wiped his finger on his uniform and forgot about...
U.C.L.A.'s All-America End Rommie Loudd also tried to take the heat off his school by pointing his finger elsewhere-a move now known in amateur circles as "the Santee Gambit." "I was offered large sums of money and far more per month to enter other schools," said Loudd. "But I came to U.C.L.A. because I felt they were fair in what they were doing for all athletes. California offered me $1,600 cash and $50 over and above the allotted $75 permitted by the conference. U.S.C. arranged special entrance examinations for me to get in. They offered...
...clues, tells the pupil whether he is doing well or badly and makes him repeat over and over if he is making errors. Always understanding, the machine holds back a difficult exercise until the pupil is ready. If set up to teach typing, it can tell the pupil which finger to use and in which direction to move it. If the pupil is a hardened hunt-and-peck typist, the teacher will discover his sloppy habits and set about correcting them at once...
...second husband. The christening took place on the second floor of the White House; four generations of Roosevelts were there: the President's mother, the President and Eleanor, their daughter Anna and her husband (since dead), and, of course, little Johnny, whom the President kept waggling a finger at during the ceremony. After the christening was over, we all drank champagne...
...pamphlet issued by the West German Socialists. The founding of the SED, said the pamphlet, was "the darkest day in the German workers' movement." It solemnly warned: "Whoever tries to make a pact with Communists will perish doing so ... Whoever lets the Communists have his little finger will lose his whole hand . . . Whoever tries to remain neutral towards Communism gives himself...