Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual ceremony. Kennedy, an up-from-the-beat disciplinarian who runs New York's 23,600-man force with an iron hand (TIME, July 7), promoted eight cops ranging from rookie patrolman to lieutenant. Curiously, all eight were raised for the same reason: they had put the finger on other cops during a month of sordid police scandals that rocked the world's largest city...
Cops & Daubers. In Wayne, N.J., the architect's specification sheet for the new Municipal Building lists all the police rooms, including the "Finger Paint Room...
...local customs on his round-the-world junket, West Berlin's personable Mayor Willy Brandt, like many another tourist, got himself deco rated with leis on arrival in Honolulu, later received a wide-eyed introduction, from a willing brace of island beauties, to the pasty pleasures of two-finger...
...Gates prepared to leave June 1, after the Navy's 1960 budget passes. Last week also a third disappointed man popped up. Grieved was G.O.P. Chairman Alcorn. who had done no more than listen to congressional advice, had been clobbered in print as the man who put the finger on Independent Republican Smith...
...California's mountain-bordered Central Valley, a green, 450-mile finger veined by rivers and stretching half the length of the state, nothing buzzes quite so persistently as the Bees. Last week the industrious hum of the three Bee papers (combined circulation 284,755), issuing from hives in Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto, rose louder than ever. For the first time in its 102 years of publication, the Sacramento Bee came out with a Sunday edition...