Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much easier to point out the bad aspects of this play, which are for the most part structural, than it is to put one's finger on the good. The defects, such as the dubious comic relief provided by he shenanigans of a young woman named Baby Love Dallas, can be sharpened up in a couple of weeks. The high quality of lyric beauty in much of the dialogue, however, cannot be lost. One outstanding merit of the present production is Mildred Natwick's perceptive interpretation of Dolly Talbo, while Georgia Burke, as Catherine the cook, is consistently amusing...
...slush is yet dry on Winter's testament familiar sounds are oozing up from the Southland, the crack of a bat against the horsehide and the peck of a finger against the old Woodstock. Spring baseball is back. Radiant in their new sport shirts, the scribes are again squeezing the grapefruit league for every drop...
Time was when baseball was a summer sport, played by young men who could wiggle a finger at the left-field stands without getting a banner line in someone's second section. Those were the good old days. Since then Abner Doubleday's pleasant pastime has been attenuated into an eight-months monster, devouring two-thirds of the year and thousands of tons of newsprint, bleating out paragraphs about the weight of Dick Wakefield's spikes and the quality of the umpiring in the Sally League...
Some of this information came from the House Executive Expenditures subcommittee, headed by Virginia Democrat Porter Hardy Jr., which made an on-the-scene investigation in Morocco; other testimony came from civilian engineers and from Air Force men. All of it seemed to point a finger of blame at the Army Corps of Engineers, which commissioned private firms to build the bases...
Those whose business it is at Panmunjom to raise a moistened finger to the wind and test the weather detected some signs of clearing skies last week. Pessimists read the signs another way: whenever the West becomes too restive over Chinese stalling, the Chinese become briefly conciliatory, and the talk goes...