Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Guns. Emperor Bao Dai had dipped a negligent finger into the troubled waters, sent orders to Diem from his comfortable villa in Cannes to take three bit ter rivals into his Cabinet. One was General Le Van Vien, whose principal qualification for office was that he headed the Binh Xuyen, a "religious" sect which controls the city's police and also Saigon's gambling (last spring Bao Dai gave him control of the national "surete," too). Another was General Nguyen Van Xuan. who had been Premier of Viet Nam in 1946. The third was General Nguyen...
...slumped down and started dusting the phonograph with the nub of a finger or two. Griselda sighed and went over to the door...
...access to defense secrets since May, even paid him $570 a month to stay in the Communist network. But, apparently, Dides was content to go on "watching" as the ring delivered crucial defense decisions and information of France's plight in Indo-China without lifting a finger to stop it. Why? What was he waiting...
...seen convinced him, "sadly but definitely," that German rearmament was necessary. Said Donnelly: "If every plan for controlled German rearmament is rejected, we shall find ourselves with no controls-but with the arms." Bevanites began to boo. Shouting above the swelling uproar, Donnelly suddenly pointed an accusing finger at Bevan and cried: "Some people will bear a heavy responsibility before history for their folly." Bevan sat flushed and angry...
...vignettes, e.g., the school matron: "As smooth as minnows were Mrs. Lancaster's phrases of welcome; she had soothed so many mothers, mothered so many boys. Her words swam all one way in unison, but her heart never moved." Several of the short stories are little more than finger exercises. But they are done by fingers as quick and sure as any in the business...