Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sides of mutton hang along the northern wall of the church of Saint Eustache; mountains of crated cabbages and oranges block the sidewalks for half a mile. Buyers for hotels, restaurants, retail groceries and butcher shops swarm and haggle, crunch over the crushed ice of the fish pavilion to finger white octopuses or boxes of shiny mackerel, delicately press ripe Camemberts and sniff critically at Bries. As dawn breaks, late partygoers pick their way gingerly across the littered gutters to one of the small, famed bistros like...
...warm up the new theater audience. Again he leans into a gale of applause. "How are you all?" he asks. "How many are here from out of town?" He recoils from the forest of hands, crying: "Wow! New Yorkers can't even get seats!" He waggles a finger at his people onstage. "Heads will roll." The audience loves it. Ed continues: "Everybody in the audience is honor bound to be happy. So look happy!" They do. "In 30 seconds, Art Hannes is going to introduce me and he will be absolutely astonished that I showed up. They didn...
...book's strength lies in its Cineramic picture of the swagman's life-taking a turn at shearing, cutting burrs, fencing or digging spuds. To Macauley this was the only life, for "you have a hundred roads to choose from and a hundred towns to put the finger on." Australian Novelist Niland, who has been a swagman himself, tells the reader a lot about his homeland in a story as fresh as a billy of tea brewing over a thistle campfire. But for some tastes, he may have spooned in a bit too much sugar...
...followed his finger. On the way I fell in behind three students en route to a second-hand bookstore. They talked something like I did 25 years ago at Heidelberg and Ohio State, but slightly modernized...
Asked to identify the men who took Emmett Till from his cabin, Mose Wright stood up and pointed a gnarled finger straight at Milam, then at Roy Bryant. The sheriff of neighboring Leflore County related that Bryant and Milam admitted taking Emmett Till, but claimed that they later let him go when they learned he was the wrong boy. The boy's mother testified that the body from the river was her son; on his finger was his dead father's ring, with the initials L.T. (Louis Till). She had cautioned him about Tallahatchie County. She told...