Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five months of careful work, Burgoyne and Washington are back in their frames, and Cornwallis is almost finished. Tightening the picture on a stretcher last week, the countess gave it a light tap with her finger. Cornwallis uttered a soft boom. "You see," she said proudly,"like a drum...
...another by election-year politics; they keep ever in mind (as they certainly should) the possibility of war in Europe or over Detroit-but are apt to dismiss as "localitis" any forthright attempt to settle the war in Korea. Any shavetail out of West Point could have put his finger on the Kaesong-Panmunjom fallacy by quoting Clausewitz: "If our opponent is to do our will, we must put him in a position more disadvantageous to him than the sacrifice...we demand." In Korea, the U.N. had the Communists at a disadvantage but let them get away...
...Three times in one day they disobeyed orders; each time they were brought to heel by tear-gas barrages. One antiCommunist, hardly more than four feet tall, seized his chance to scramble under the wire of his pen, lacerating his back but getting away just ahead of clutching Communist fingers. He said he had been sentenced to death, and he then put the finger on 102 members of kangaroo courts. These malefactors were dragged out by U.S. guards for isolation...
...heart patient has a bottleneck in the mitral valve, it can be opened with a tiny knife on the end of the surgeon's finger. But this daring operation will do little good if the valve to the aorta (main artery) is also narrowed, and there has been no way to repair this second defect. Dr. Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia, who developed the first operation, now has another for opening the aortic valve: he pushes piano wire into the valve through the heart, and uses it as a guide for a spreader which opens the valve...
...Family. In Norfolk, Va., Mary Wilson was set upon by a strange man who cut her left arm, bit the middle finger of her left hand, took a look at her, and said apologetically: "I beg your pardon-I thought you were my wife...