Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week stocky, stolid Premier Joseph Laniel walked to the rostrum in the National Assembly, ran a stubby finger around his collar to loosen it, and began, in a flat, unemphatic voice, to read a speech. For the second time in eight days, to bolster France's search for peace at Geneva, Joseph Laniel was staking his Cabinet's continuation in office on a vote of confidence. He had survived the first vote (before the fall of Dienbienphu) by a comfortable margin, 311 to 262. This time he realized that his government might fall...
...Deacon pointed an unsteady finger at the flickering face of Senator John J. McClellan (D-Ark.) on the television screen. He turned to the old woman beside...
...Knights of the Round Table) Taylor, 42, divorced in 1951 from Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck, announced that he would marry the beautiful lady at the same table, German Cinemactress Ursula (Monsoon) Thiess, 29. Ursula was photographed looking properly demure before Taylor slipped an outsize diamond sunburst engagement ring on her finger...
...string around my finger...
...into battle in his life. Lord Raglan's personal courage was first class. "After his right arm was amputated without an anesthetic on the field of Water loo, he called out. 'Here, don't take that arm away until I have taken the ring off the finger!' " Unfortunately, he "covered his [Crimean] staff with confusion by forgetting that the French were ... his allies and invariably talking of 'the French' when he meant 'the enemy.' " It was Lord Raglan who ordered the Charge of the Light Brigade. ¶George Bingham, third Earl...