Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other CIOers actually produced what the Senators called a "common man" and rushed him to the Senate to speak. He was John C. Saccocio, uncommon Schenectady welder, who leveled an accusing finger at the startled members of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, and said: "People like you and you and you and you-most of you do not represent the people. You represent the manufacturers . . . where is this democracy?" He would throw every last black-marketeer in jail. There aren't enough jails, a Senator suggested. "Build more jails," retorted Citizen Saccocio...
...expectant father. Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means...
...that after Labor was done with industry there would "still remain something like 80% and you can play around with that if you like." Now he roared that there was "no department of public activity, whether national or local, in which Labor hasn't got to have a finger in the pie." He thundered at .his hearers: "We must be in everything because we are the country...
Despite the fact that he could hand-pick his subordinates, Spruille Braden faced a dilemma. Last week an old hand at Latin American affairs put his finger on it. Wrote onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles in his New York Herald Tribune column: "For over two years I have warned that the policy of the Department of State would arouse popular support for the military leaders and weaken [Argentina's] liberal and democratic forces. [This policy] helped to bring about [Peron's] triumph...
...suffer. In the long run, she explains that she has misbehaved with half the men in South America not for the fun of it but purely to make Ford jealous, and that not one of those men, no, not even her husband, has so much as laid a finger on her, except in rage...