Word: finger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moaned Florida's Dante Fascell, one of the bill's managers: "I feel like the man who tried to prevent disaster by putting his finger in the dike-only to have somebody come along...
...open, Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee scarcely had a chance. Now Apollo has only one hatch, and it can be opened with a ratchet from inside in about five seconds. The mechanism of the new, 70-lb. hatch, which Low says can be opened "with your little finger," is assisted by a cylinder of compressed nitrogen gas. Better for escape during ground tests, the quick-opening hatch also provides easier exit and re-entry during operations outside the spacecraft in flight. Moreover, it assures astronauts of a simpler solution to docking or passageway problems when they return...
Even so, the Viet Cong recruiters have their standards. Any man under 4 ft. 10 in. is rejected, as are those with kinfolk fighting for the government, those with such ailments as stomach trouble, tuberculosis, asthma or an amputated trigger finger. To avoid infiltration by government spies, one captured document enjoined against recruiting former ARVN volunteers, Roman Catholics, and "those young men whose father or mother were killed by the Revolution, landlords' sons, and those whose parents, brothers and sisters were tyrants, opponents and distributors of the Revolution...
...birthplace. He got his first instrument at the age of eleven, a fret-less banjo made for him by his father, a "pretty fair country picker." By 17, he had begun serious listening to such country-music greats as Guitarist Merle Travis, and had duplicated Travis' individualistic finger-picking style, in which the forefinger touches the strings directly and plucks out the tune while the thumb plunks out a moving bass. Country music in those days offered slim pickings to a newcomer, and Watson earned his first pay as lead guitarist in a local pop band...
...else yet has. They are, for a start, apolitical. They have never written a protest song. Except, perhaps for "Taxman." Written when the government was skimming off 90 per cent of their earnings, it is a song in which they wagged a scrupulously bipartisan, yet threatening, finger: "Oh-hoh Mr. Wilson, oh-hoh Mr. Heath...