Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party. Communists like to make it seem like a pyramid in which power rises from the grass roots up through local and regional committees to the top. The West, on the other hand, usually sees the party as a "monolith," in which Stalin has only to crook his little finger to produce a purge in Krasnoyarsk. The Russian version is nonsense, but the Western idea is not quite right either. The party is in fact a highly complex mechanism which must be kept well oiled if Stalin's finger is to have the desired effect in Krasnoyarsk or anywhere...
...heights of the Continental Divide the first snow is falling. Soon the snow packs will form, and a thousand rivulets, streaming down to the outstretched finger rivers of the Missouri, will freeze over. Across the lonely badlands and treeless plains, the rain is mild and gentle, and the Big Muddy and its tributaries are snug in their beds. In Iowa and Nebraska, in Montana and the Dakotas, all but the latest crops are in. For the farmers and ranchers of the Missouri Valley, one year of risk and struggle is ending, another will soon begin...
After Huxley's talk the humanists sat down to evaluate his thesis. There was vague disagreement. Some felt that any religion-even a humanist variety-is unscientific. Others doubted that evolutionary humanism would readily attract converts. A French delegate put his finger on a traditional humanist problem. "What troubles me," he said, "is that we're in the clouds...
...other millionaire playboys also made headlines last week. John Given Jr.. 44-year-old heir to a piece of the Heinz pickle fortune, was asked to leave Brigantine, N.J. because of an intoxicated trigger finger. Given, who was in trouble back in 1948 for threatening an old man with a sword cane, set off a disturbance last week by visiting a children's party with five pistols, and firing blank cartridges in salvos while the kiddies fled, screaming, from every exit...
...many bubbles still remain of the champagne that once was life in Vienna, but one surviving reminder is the telephone system. With a languorous turn of a dial finger, the Viennese can evoke by telephone the latest weather reports, football pool results, stock and commodity exchange quotations, train or bus schedules, a complete daily dinner menu with recipes, or a perfect Atone for his violin...