Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work on the case. Last week, after secretly questioning some 500 witnesses, Sepe turned over the last of 16,000 pages of evidence to the government prosecutor. Nothing happened. After three days' waiting, Magistrate Sepe took an unusual step to prod higher authorities to action: he pointed his finger at four prominent figures by the simple expedient of canceling their passports. The four: Pianist Piero Piccioni, Ugo Montagna, ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito and, to the surprise of almost everyone, Prince Maurice of Hesse, 28-year-old grandson of Italy's late King Victor Emmanuel. The magistrate...
...Another aspect of Johnson's views on McCarthy was contained in a news letter last year to his Colorado constituents. Wrote Johnson: "Senator McCarthy with all his many and obvious faults has put the finger on many subversives in and out ot the State Department. Sometimes a mean guy renders a good service...
Life in the pages of a Damon Runyon story is a happy affair, but Harry the Horse. Dave the Dude, Light-Finger Moe and many other guys and dolls seem to have been less engaging in fact than in fiction. When Runyon brought one of the real-life models of his characters home, his wife broke up the party by shouting: "Get that bum out of here...
...Greek Communism, the late George Sianto's, who was head of the party in Greece during the years of Nazi occupation. When the tide of war started going against Greece's Communist guerrillas early in 1949, Zachariades knew at whom to point the finger: Guerrilla Leader Markos Vafiades, who mysteriously disappeared about that time and has not been heard from, since...
Hard Terms, Wide Dangers, In the House of Commons, Eden rose to warm but not exuberant cheers to report on the agreement. Bronzed by the Geneva sun, he broke off from his prepared text to raise a finger heavenward and declare emotionally: "Let us remember that these terms, hard though they may be, are the only alternative to continued fighting, further misery and suffering, and the certainty of even greater sacrifices in the end. What is more, there was a wider danger...