Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another tent, a P.W. stood his ground for almost four hours. The Swiss and the Swede kept asking him if he wanted to leave, but the P.W. seemed quite happy to stay. The Communist explainer moved halfway round his table, and threatened the P.W. The Swiss wagged his finger in the explainer's face, and cried, "You shut up. You shut up." The Poles and Czechs shouted at the Swiss, and the Indian shouted in Hindi to the guards. At this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper drove up to the tent...
...cold weather, the doctors report. And it may be aggravated by many common household irritants, such as bleaches, waxes, polishes, or even hand lotions and cold creams. These create a breeding ground for germs. "A common history," they find, "is that of an eruption beginning on the left fourth finger under rings and later spreading to other portions of the hands [caused] by the retention of dishwashing soaps or detergents beneath the rings as a result of inadequate rinsing...
...said . . .'Lydon, where are you going . . . where's your rifle?' He said, 'I'm hurt, I'm frightened' ... He said he had broken his little finger, but it seemed perfectly all right to me. He was lying on the floor under a shelf dug into the side of the trench the whole time ... I said several times, 'Get up and fight,' and Lydon replied, 'I can't. I'm hurt, I'm afraid.' " Lydon took no part in the desperate battle around him. Finally, the Chinese...
Most of them are lost in time and space. Many cannot judge distances. Billy, for example, is missing the tip of one finger: he was pointing at the whirling wheel of a bicycle on a kickstand and jammed his finger into the spokes, which had seemed to him at a safe distance. Often they cannot count unless they can touch the objects. Most victims have a tantalizingly short attention span, so that teaching them calls for Job-like patience, but paradoxically they suffer from perseveration -the tendency to keep on saying a word or repeating an action long after...
...Finger in the Heart. In no area of surgery has the anesthesiologist played a more vital role than in operations inside the heart. Ten or 15 years ago, little or nothing could be done for the patient with a constricted mitral valve (usually the result of rheumatic fever). Then surgeons at .Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital devised a finger-tip knife for opening the valves. The trick was to do it without killing the patient...