Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Symbol of Virtue. The person most responsible for the WAAC was Army Chief of Staff George Marshall, one of whose staff officers recalled: "General Marshall shook his finger at me and said, T want a women's corps right away and I don't want any excuses!' " The bill creating the WAAC was passed by Congressmen May 14, 1942, over anguished opposition (cried a Representative: "Think of the humiliation! What has become of the manhood of America?"). Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, a Houston publisher, was sworn in as WAAC director. Notes the book: "Her wide-brimmed...
...know how much room that leaves between two passing cars?" The audience became silent and waited for the answer. "The width of your index finger," the traffic official concluded...
Einstein disliked the ballyhoo, but over the years he learned to make use of it. From his pedestal he occasionally poked a finger into worldly affairs. In the '30s he asked the Polish government to pardon draft dodgers. In the '50s he urged "the little minority of intellectuals" to refuse to testify before congressional committees, on the grounds that "it is shameful for a blameless citizen to submit to such an inquisition...
Strategic Air Command (Paramount) is one soaring, supercolossal recruiting poster. It tells the story of the men and machines whose job it is to be so good at their job that they will never have to do it. SAC is "the finger," as airmen call it, of the U.S. air arm, the corps that may have to carry The Bomb. The point of this picture: "We're the only thing that's keeping the peace." Though the story seldom gets off the ground, the planes do, and the camera follows them through some of the most majestic scenes...
...United States Embassy in Moscow declined to issue visas after they refused to comply with the finger-printing regulation, which they labeled treatment reserved for criminals. The Foreign Ministry officially protested that finger-printing was "incompatible with the editors' public standing in the Soviet Union and the tasks of their journalistic activities...