Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grace Fernald's clinic school at U.C.L.A. [TIME, July 12] unwittingly puts a finger on the fundamental fault of present-day grade school education. Why was a boy who was unable to read or write promoted year after year until he reached the fifth grade ? And how much further would he have been promoted if he hadn't gone to the clinic school...
...full 30 seconds she struggled to get the needle-sharp fangs out of her middle finger, pressing with all her strength against the cobra's locked jaws. When she had torn the snake loose and carefully returned it to its cage, she calmly instructed the photographer to apply tourniquets to her wrist and elbow told him where to find stimulants and needles. But the needles were rusty and the vials broke in the photographer's hand. "Take me to a hospital at once," she ordered. "This is serious...
...with screams of wounded pride. Imprecations rattled about the hall like hailstones. Angry old men glared and shook their fists at Basso, who stood slender, confident and amused behind the speaker's desk. A ruddy, portly old Socialist waddled up to the rostrum, his pince-nez and a finger wagging together. Cried he: "You are a clever fellow, Basso, and a good orator, but you have used us like doormats." Mopping his face with a silk handkerchief, Basso surveyed the old gentleman, then shrugged and turned away. The Socialist Party might be dead, but Basso knew where his course...
...House of Saud and the lion cubs of Hussein [Abdullah's father] are one hand whose bonds in Allah will never be dissevered . . . They are the roaring lions and the suns at forenoon . . . Palestine is a bloody finger whose illness may be cured by resolution . . . Neither the Security Council nor falling bombs nor fire nor steel can dissuade us . . . We shield ourselves with Allah and the Koran...
...That Arévalo. He hates me. I don't know why. Lord, he has troubles of his own in Guatemala-why bother to stick his nose into Nicaragua?" Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, who is proud of his English, paused abruptly and jabbed a fat finger into the stuffed Guatemalan quetzal that hung by his desk. "The quetzal-symbol of liberty or death to the Guatemalans," he snickered. "There are lots of tame ones in the Bronx...