Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual evening encounter with the Banking Committee, Burns wagged his finger in rebuke as he declared that Reuss's bills would "undermine our market system and wreck chances for an economic recovery." Lowering interest rates at a faster pace than the Fed has set, argued Burns, would lead to an "explosive" expansion of money and credit and fire up inflation. Burns also said that he was not aware of any shortage of funds available to credit-worthy borrowers. He apparently made a persuasive case, since Reuss backed down, withdrew his bills, and accepted a largely meaningless compromise. The committee...
...labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position as perhaps the most caustic and telling critic of President Ford's economic policies. Pointing a stubby finger of alarm, Meany warned that unless someone did something and did it fast, the American nation could once again experience what he referred to-and vividly remembered-as the "Great Depression...
...January and February on the Cape are brutal," Jimmy says. "especially February," Jimmy a dark Irishman from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, and Louise have lived in Wellfleet two years. They are fortunate in finding work year round, in the summer, they both work at a restaurant in North Truro, in winter he works construction, sporadically, and she is a bank teller is Provincetown, Neither of them enjoys the job, but feels it is worth...
Edelin said that he sought to determine whether the fetus's heart was still beating before handing the fetus to in nurse, by placing his finger on the chest of the fetus...
...groups and their foreign contacts. Johnson was convinced that the Communists were pouring money into the antiwar movement in the U.S. Helms kept going back to Johnson and telling him that it was not so, that the CIA could not find the connection. One day Johnson waggled his big finger at the men around him and complained: "I just don't understand why you can't find out about all that foreign money that is behind those war protesters...