Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provide anything much to look at through the polaroid glasses. Said one California sage: "Every studio in Hollywood agrees that the 3-D vogue is practically dead." Even the news from Washington that an, inventor had patented polaroid sun glasses that can be changed with the flick of a finger into 3-D spectacles failed to cheer the true stereoscopists...
...Obstacle. In Halmstad, Sweden, after his left ring finger was twisted by a neighbor during an argument, Amos Johannson, 58, sued for damages, won an $80 settlement when he pleaded that his marriage had to be postponed because he could not get his wedding ring on until the swelling subsided...
...sole purpose of the Jenner Committee was to put the finger on individuals who would use the Fifth Amendment to refuse answers and thus bring into public gaze individuals who would be barbecued," Mather charged. "Jenner called about 100 witnesses fully knowing that at least 80 of them would fall back on the Fifth Amendment," Mather claimed...
...Dick slipped the ring on his bride's finger, photographers interrupted, hollering "Hold it!" Then Yasmin jumped up, shouted "Mommy, I want a ring too." A wedding guest quieted her down by slipping off his own ring-a large diamond set in platinum-and putting it on Yasmin's finger. Within two minutes the ceremony was ended and the newlyweds went out, as Columnist Florabel Muir wrote, past "the clanking of the slot machines and the soft chant of the croupiers at the crap tables." to the wedding luncheon for the press...
...with uncommon power. It is too bad that Novelist Cela's method is self-defeating. He spreads himself too thinly over too many characters, and his vignettes, taken together, lack the sharpness that they have separately. But many a lesser, more successful novelist would give his best typing finger to be able to evoke the bitterness, insight and compassion that Novelist Cela packs into brief scenes that plunge straight at the heart...