Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only once did Acheson allow himself a lawyer's display of anger. As he told how the Reds refused to allow a neutral body to investigate their germ-warfare charges, he shook his finger and asked: "What do you think of people like that?" then muttered, almost to himself: "Unspeakable...
Fighting flared up last week at other points along the central and western fronts-at Bunker Hill, of bloody memory (TIME, Aug. 25), at places called Finger Ridge and Iron Horse. Correspondents who saw last week's battles reported severe U.N. casualties-especially in U.S. dead and wounded on Triangle Hill...
...happened that the patient's heart was so enlarged that Dr. Dodrill could not expose the mitral valve as he had hoped to do. He had to work "blind," with his finger in the heart, manipulating the valve flaps -a standard operation for this condition, performed regularly without a pump. The patient got along fine, and his valve now works better...
Other good Christians, who thought on similar lines about culture and religion, succeeded only in confusing the two. Tillich made no such mistake. He saw Theologian Earth's "neo-orthodoxy" as "a finger warning against becoming completely 'horizontal' (i.e., this-worldly...
...good wife to Chester. As she watches him fight and connive his way to political power, she is disgusted, fascinated, finally enlisted. But she is still helplessly in love with Jim. Whenever that selfish, arrogant, incoherent gentleman reappears, he has only to crook his finger or whistle...