Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failure of Northerners to approach Negro-White relations in the South without quivering emotion and much finger-shaking has more often impaired better understanding than furthered it. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has several times done considerable harm...
...Photographer Joern Gerdts' skill in shooting game far surpasses that of any hunter -whether he be the weekend small-townsman in Levis or the big-city boy in his "pure cashmere long underwear from Abercrombie & Fitch." Gerdts' photos should make some readers still the itching trigger finger instead of arousing the desire to kill...
...formed nooses about the necks of the visitors, and an aimless cheer resolved itself into an intelligible chant, "Nehru! Bulganin! Khrushchev!" The celebrities chatted. Nehru had heard that Bulganin wears a bulletproof vest in public appearances. "I do not," said Bulganin. "Feel me." Nehru good-naturedly poked an inquiring finger at the Russian's chest. Then Bulganin turned to the crowd and raised his hands high in a happy prizefighter's salute...
...avant-garde group, as a symbol, apparently, of what is wrong with bourgeois U.S. They take to hanging out in his respectable apartment and quoting his unquotable bromides in their modish cold-water flats. Garvey beats the avant-gardists at their own game. He loses a little finger slamming a car door and replaces the member with a mandarin's jeweled nail guard...
...Must Stop Scrawling." Himself the monitor of a philosophic flux-materialism, rationalism, idealism, skepticism-Santayana reveals in the letters not the direction but the drive behind his thinking. To him, philosophy seems to have been a kind of verbal finger painting. As the nuns of the Little Company of Mary padded about him during the last decade of his life, he drew an appealing sketch of old age which also sums up much of his carefully Epicurean philosophy: "The charm I find in old age-for I was never happier than I am now-comes of having learned to live...