Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twenty-five years some old Harvard grad, vintage '58, will putter about his library until he finds a musty purple volume on the bottom shelf of a bookcase. He will flip a few pages, and then, with an arm about his son and a finger next to his picture, the old grad will declare, "By gum, there's your...
...Republican Governor of Ohio, backed with the full force of his party's state machinery, last week won renomination-but only by 346,554 votes to 198,599 for an opponent who had pledged "not to lift a finger" in active candidacy. The lackluster winner: 42-year-old Governor C. (for nothing) William O'Neill; the loser: former Cincinnati Mayor Charles P. Taft, who had filed only as a "standby" after O'Neill suffered a mild heart attack (TIME...
Seeking reasons for the auto slump, the Wall Street Journal pointed a finger at lazy salesmen in a memo to dealers: "There are hordes of people driving the streets today who are ready and able to buy a new car, if you'd only ask them." Last week the Journal got a rise out of William O. Neale, vice president for sales of Los Angeles' Harger-Haldeman, Plymouth-Chrysler-Imperial agency. Wrote Neale: "The fact is, our fellows don't spend time talking about the recession. They're too busy doing something about it-with phone...
Captain Bob Cleary, moreover, still has a painfully bruised finger on his left hand which hurts him at bat. Normally one of the varsity's strongest hitters, the second baseman never got his bat on the ball against Dartmouth's Art Quirk Wednesday...
Cleary, one of the varsity's strongest hitters, has had a badly bruised finger since a pitch struck his hand in Monday's practice and finds it very painful to bat. If he is unable to play, George Harrington will take over the second base assignment...