Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome's international set, the Via Veneto is outdoor club, place of business, trading post and town pump. At the tables, porcine movie producers discuss deals over an aperitivo, sad-eyed young English poets finger their last published articles, handsomely tailored young men while away their time, expertly assess the jewels on neighboring matrons and debate whether to offer their services as escorts. Sauntering by in an endless stream are pretty, dark girls with swelling bosoms and swelling hopes of catching a producer's eye, gawking tourists from Germany, Switzerland or the U.S., or uninhibited Italian families...
...famed New York Sun of the '90s, then became one of the leading muckrakers of the Teddy Roosevelt era. Later he turned out a whole series of popular romances, one of which, Flaming Youth, trademarked a generation. Finally, from his ancestral seat in New York's Finger Lakes district, he knocked off a succession of York State historical novels. Now, at 84, Sam Adams displays his tireless versatility anew in an amusing collection of sketches written out of his boyhood recollections. Grandfather Stories, most of which first appeared in The New Yorker, is the Book-of-the-Month...
...painstaking care for details and his willingness to spend long hours gliding around the Senate, from chamber to cloakroom to corridor, bringing men of widely varying beliefs together in a new party unity. When Johnson wanted the Senate to move faster in its processes his signal was a finger twirled in the air, in the manner of an airplane mechanic instructing a pilot to "Rev your engines." But as the daily, nerve-shredding pounding of brain and body took its toll, perhaps Lyndon Johnson revved his own engines too often...
...uppermost in Malchiel's mind was the fate that had befallen his relatives in Hungary. A bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding out who had betrayed them. Last year, after poring through mountains of yellowed records, he pointed the finger of blame at Rudolf (now Israel) Kastner, by then a citizen of Israel himself, a promising politico in the Mapai Party and an assistant to Cabinet Minister Dov Joseph...
...meeting last week of the five national secretaries of the party found one. They decided "to liberate Comrade Roveda" from his onerous duties and told him to go take a health cure. To succeed the ousted comrade, they appointed 50-year-old Novella, the man who put the finger on Roveda...