Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Open Mind. In secret, aboard an ice-covered Soviet vessel, Ho Chi Minh put into Leningrad. "So here you are!" a Communist contact greeted him, and for two years the Russians paid him flattery. In Leningrad they lent Ho a fur coat, treated him to roast meats and two-finger-long cigarettes. In Moscow they invited Ho, about 30 years old, to sit with the President of the Third International. In return, Ho helped the Russians organize their "University for Toilers of the East," and accepted training-like China's Chou En-lai-as a "professional revolutionist." There...
...clammy dawn, a railway inspector in Hamburg last week was making his rounds of freight cars on a siding. A car packed with crated machinery from Hungary caught his eye. From a knothole in one big crate, a finger beckoned. The inspector hurried over to the crate. Inside it a hoarse voice whispered: "Thirst, thirst." When police broke open the crate a young, dirty-bearded man, too weak even to stand, fell out into their arms...
...look, Chief," said Sullivan, looking up, "I mean exactly (his finger pointing for emphasis) how many?" Chief Ready glanced out the window...
ACROSS the wind-blown plains of eastern Washington, up through the cool, forested hills of northern-Idaho and the mountains and finger valleys of western Montana, men talk in frontier terms of manifest destiny, and call their northwest U.S. land an Inland Empire. It is a towering land, with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket...
When Chrysler Corp. went through its last big model change two years ago, the company thought it had its finger firmly on the public pulse. Corporation surveys showed that customers wanted shorter, easier-to-maneuver cars with less chrome and plenty of interior height so nobody mashed his hat. The result: Chrysler sales plummeted nearly 50% as the great U.S. car buyer turned to the longest, slinkiest cars he could find. Last week, taking no chances on 1955, Chrysler President Lester L. ("Tex") Colbert showed newsmen a 1955 line that is as long and low as anything on the road...