Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burglaries in downtown Burlington, Vt., Sheriff Dewey Perry sensed a strange new atmosphere around " his jailhouse. "There was something wrong about the tempo," he said. "Everything was too quiet." Searching for the cause, the sheriff came across a shaky-looking brick wall in the jailhouse basement. With one finger, he pushed bricks out on to Main Street. Then he searched his twelve prisoners. Frederick Hamelin had $60 in his pocket, another $145 sewn neatly into his pillow. Clyde B. Hamblin had $143 hidden in his bedding. Hamblin's and Hamelin's cells also yielded up a hoard...
...Among the features: the story of a schoolboy named Ed Hoover, who couldn't make the football team but grew up to be director of the FBI; a how-to-do-it section on teaching your parakeet to talk ("When he trusts you, he will perch on your finger while you take him out of the cage"); "Railroad Whistle Talk," i.e., what the toots of a locomotive whistle mean; a secret code so that "you can send letters and notes that no one else will understand"; a problems column. (Send your answers to this question: "Your best friend agrees...
...youthful (32) Governor Clement-who is considered likely to run against Estes Kefauver for the senatorial nomination next year-was lending his oratorical flair to the auction of 44 state-owned automobiles. Reason: during his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last summer, Lawyer Clement had pointed a shaming finger at the well-wheeled Gordon Browning administration and promised: "In my administration, no state commissioner will ride in a car above the level of a Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth...
When former Defense Secretary Robert Lovett had his say about the ammunition shortage, he leveled an accusing finger at U.S. Army Ordnance and the red-tape jungle in the Pentagon (TIME, April 20). Last week, from the depths of the jungle, Army spokesmen pointed right back. Their fingers were aimed at the Defense Secretary's chair, and the Truman-appointed civilians (including Lovett) who sat in it from the beginning of the Korean...
...Radcliffe senior began with Bach's French Suite No. 3. She played the seven sections as they deserve to be played--not as finger exercises but as lively, subtle dances. In fact, each piece on the program seemed to receive exactly the performance it was created for. Miss Drooker played Scriabin's quietly expressive Nocturne for Left Hand (op. 9, no. 2) without falling into the usual traps of excessively free rhythm and over-pedaling. Her graceful, well-paced renditions of Debussy's Passepied, from the Suite Bergamasque, and Minstrels showed how effective these can be when they are played...