Word: finger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis in education, Johnson deplored the fact that man's "awesome talent for destruction" still competes with his "determination to build." He posed, as a key question of the age: "Can we train a young man's eye to absorb learning as eagerly as we train his finger to pull a trigger...
...hard to put your finger on the differences between Yael and her kibbutz contemporaries. She is a little more friendly, perhaps more gentle. Her English is better, a tribute to the cities' superior schools...
When Communist Spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean escaped to Moscow in 1951 just before British intelligence moved in on them, the big question was who had tipped them off that they had been discovered. The finger of suspicion pointed at Harold A.R. Philby, an officer of Britain's M.I. 6 itself, but Philby was defended in Parliament by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan and managed to survive two investigations-before himself fleeing to Moscow from Beirut in 1963. Still,"the public never learned just how big a spy "Kim" Philby really was. Last week two London newspapers-the Observer...
...lore. His wincesome looks and quirky mannerisms-such as hunching his shoulders and reeling around like Quasimodo doing the lindy-still bring serious letters from shut-ins commending his courage for appearing despite such an obviously bad case of Bell's palsy. Jabbing and pointing his finger like a traffic cop, he once brought on a hypnotist with the familiar "Here he is!" and poked the poor fellow...
...Finger Stitcher. And his audience knows him-as a straight, if sometimes confusing, pitchman whose lack of polish is somehow his shining virtue. "There's too much damn talk on TV," he says. "Other variety shows have skillful and amusing hosts, but they spend too much time getting into the act. The most difficult thing in the world is to shut up. Besides, whoever said a master of ceremonies had to be a glamour boy? What counts is the kind of product he puts...