Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year fewer people went to football games than had gone in 1947, 48, and 49. This was true not only at Harvard but all across the nation. The National Collegiate Athletic Association would like to know why, and at the moment it is pointing a shaky finger at the Blinking Monster, television...
...behalf of the 8,000,000 Bantu who do not (possibly cannot) read quality magazines, I would like to shout bayete! bayete! to TIME, Sept. 3 for putting its blunt finger on Johannesburg, South Africa's sorest spot...
Conscientious Democrat Douglas, who drives himself beyond the capacity of most men and the inclination of most Senators, had spent several months looking for soft spots in the bill. The Douglas finger jabbed at old military featherbeds. He wanted to save $50 to $100 million by cutting off flight pay of Air Force officers who did not fly. He proposed to reduce the ratio between combat men and supporting personnel. He suggested that the Navy did not need 95 new luxury planes, costing $215 million, for VIPs. In all, he claimed, his cautious cuts would total nearly $1 billion...
...spoke for his program in Washington, De Lattre was impressive and persuasive. He speaks a fluent, heavily accented English, in words that sometimes trip over an English idiom. (Once, meaning to say "I point upward." he came out with, "I point my finger through the ceiling...
Little Adults. Later, she added regular articles on marriage problems and housing ("for they all affect children, too"), children's books (which are pretested on young readers), movies and records. Editor Littledale also keeps a supervisory finger on Parents' byproduct publications: Children's Digest, 21 (for young men), Compact (for girls), Your New Baby and Baby Care Manual (for new mothers...