Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Churchill ran a broad finger down Britain's army list and halted at the fifth name: General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O. A message to Cobham, Surrey brought 54-year-old General Templer flying to the banquet room in Ottawa. Three weeks later he was in Malaya, with such military and political powers in his kit bag as no British soldier had had since Cromwell...
Dancers of Bali Gamelan Orchestra (Columbia). Deep gongs, cymbals, gangsas (marimbas), reyongs (small tuned gongs), angklungs (rattles) and finger-drums, played with astonishing variety of tone and precisely stumbling rhythms by the Indonesian musicians now touring the U.S. (TiME, Oct. 6). Good fun, and a rattling good test for "hifi" phonographs...
...swore simply to "protect and insure protection of the Constitution." Outgoing President Miguel Alemán turned over the green, white and red sash of office. Ruiz Cortines thereupon became the 48th President of Mexico. His inauguration address was low-voiced and prosaic, his only gesture a finger pointed straight in the air. "We will open a new era in the history of Mexico," he said...
...guard always sticks his finger...
...good part of the social rise of Three-Finger Brown proved to have been accomplished with the aid of tiny (5 ft., 118 lbs.) Armand Chankalian, administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Lane. Chankalian testified that not until 1950 had he come to realize that his good friend, Tommy Luchese, had so lurid a past. Then, said Chankalian, he had told Luchese, "I introduced you to some very nice people, and I owe an obligation to them . . . I'm sorry, I can't see you any more . . ." Informed that his car had been seen in front of Luchese...