Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suety Georgy Malenkov, the Premier, who got to his feet before them, to put the finger on Comrade Beria. This trusted man, said Malenkov, had committed "criminal anti-party and anti-state actions, intended to undermine the Soviet State in the interest of foreign capital." How had his criminality been manifested? In "perfidious attempts to place the U.S.S.R. Ministry of Internal Affairs above the government and the Communist Party...
...also put his finger on some of the questionable tactics of tariff lobbying. In the case of silk scarves, the "domestic industry" wanted to boost the price of European imports. But Eisenhower had difficulty finding a "domestic industry." Part of it, he wrote, consisted of "U.S. entrepreneurs who buy the raw silk in Japan, pay there for the labor at piece rates for the printing and finishing, which is all done under their supervision and continued ownership," then export the goods to the U.S. and sell them. Another part consisted of U.S. finishers who do piece-rate work on scarves...
...already so zealously anti-Communist. What, ought to be investigated is the number of teachers terrified of purges and investigation, of men who cower and bootlick and teach less than they know because they are in danger of losing their jobs if anybody so much as points an accusing finger at them. When teachers start to withhold knowledge, it's time for students to stop going to school...
...Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk and ambergris) from an eagle-shaped vessel called the Ampulla. The Archbishop moistened his finger in the oil and made the sign of the cross on both the Queen's hands, on her breast and on the crown of her head. He spoke the ancient words: "As kings, priests and prophets were anointed, and as Solomon was anointed king by Zadok the priest...
...Newmans once supplied Tortoiseshells and Peacocks on short notice, at other times have stocked the Chartwell grounds with the larvae of Painted Ladies.) Biggest satisfaction of all: Hugh's five-year-old son is already mastering the fine points of the game -"The stealthy approach, net bag between finger and thumb, the gradual moving closer and closer to the butterfly sitting on a flower head with wings outspread...