Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night Kennedy arose before a sellout audience, boyishly tugged at his ear, tweaked his nose, ran a finger around the inside of his shirt collar, and announced bleakly: "I am particularly happy to be here tonight." The crowd sat silent, waiting. Kennedy continued: "It will be possible for us to disagree as Democrats within our party organization." The silence grew heavier. Kennedy plunged ahead, reading the text of Republican Verger's tricky challenge. Said he: "I accept the challenge. You who have been gracious enough to invite me hererealize that...
...chair in Brooklyn's U.S. District Court one day last week, gazed slowly over the faces before him. Reino Hayhanen, testifying as a Government witness, told the court that he had come to the U.S. five years ago as a Soviet spy. His boss? Hayhanen pointed a pudgy finger at the expressionless, bird-faced man on trial for his life: Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, 55, a painter of modest talents, who was picked up by the FBI last summer, accused of being Russia's No. 1 spy in the U.S. (TIME...
...suspense of a morality play acted out upon a stage. The good saint is seen in the act of weighing souls with the Devil, before a splendid red background decorated with gold stars. Michael has caught the Devil cheating by tipping the scales, and sadly points a shaming finger. Yet to be discovered is the lesser devil compounding the crime by tugging on the weight devil's tail. In an age of crusades and pilgrimages, when Christians intensely fought the struggle between the legions of Christ and the forces of evil from the age of reason until the very...
Nikita Khruschev's most menacing finger was pointed at Turkey, which was obviously the place where he hoped that it would produce the most effect."The ruling circles c-f the U.S.," he told Timesman Reston, ".are virtually pushing Tur key against Syria. Turkey is even laying bare parts of her frontier with the Soviet Union ... I tell Dulles and [Ambassador Loy] Henderson that it is easy to start a war but far more difficult to stop...
...overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre reacted with a violent outburst of mingled cheers and catcalls to the finger-pointing accusation of Professor George E. Kirk, a British scholar now associated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies here...