Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primitive paintings (his favorite artists: Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Ilonka Karasz) and shelves of Dresden china, porcelain figurines and antique service plates. His personal chef "may possibly be the greatest chef in the whole world." Even when the Liebmans dine alone, service is formal: "We always have wine and finger bowls...
...sidled up to the Canadians and whispered: "Beat the Russians! Canada good, America good." One of the Vs stopped to ask directions from a Prague burgher. He got a bawling out in reply. "Why didn't you beat us twice?" complained the Czech. Then he wagged a stubby finger. "You beat the Russians," he ordered...
...identified with the "Beria plot" and the equally mysterious and never explained "doctors' plot" against the army (Vasilevsky, Shtemenko, Konev). Even the now deposed Malenkov can be described as a former police official, for as clerk of the 2,500,000 dossiers, he was actually Stalin's finger man in the great GPU purges...
...protest is still there. But it is stated in poetic rather than in "proletarian" terms. Shahn still draws for two hours every morning ("like doing finger exercises"), and the liveliness of his draftsmanship keeps even the vaguest of his new works from seeming too diffuse...
...iron and manacles." The attempt failed. Sir George also was cross when his daughter showed a distaste for lawn tennis, made her practice the cello, although she liked the piano. "I used to practice with tears pouring down my cheeks because the ¶string hurt my little finger so frightfully, and also because I was making such a horrible noise...