Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ground: At "Capitol" and "Finger" Hills on the central front, newly trained ROKs fought off limited but bitter Red Chinese attacks all week. To U.S. observers, the South Koreans seemed in much better shape than they had ever been in before, but they were still inexperienced in modern tactics and baffled by U.S. ideas of staff work. Said General Van Fleet: "They will need our help for a long, long time." Meanwhile on "Bunker" Hill, to the west, Marines fought off repeated night attacks...
...press. Startled at how a chance remark to newsmen can turn into a headline, he has shied away from reporters, sees his press troupe mostly from speaking platforms. He has been working hard to overcome the barrier, but Hearst Reporter Bob Considine put his finger on one difficulty last week. In Europe, wrote Considine, Ike became accustomed to gloved-hand treatment by the press and "the very thought of an unfavorable story about his command was automatically ruled out of the average correspondent's mind." Now that he is running for the presidency, all that has changed. Wrote Considine...
Reunion & Doubt. Last week Reporter Wright got a final piece of evidence. A fingerprint expert said that Mrs. McClelland's finger and palm prints showed some of the same characteristics as the Moroney family's. The News flew Mrs. McClelland to Chicago for a reunion with her "mother," carefully hidden from rival newsmen. At a tearful meeting in the News's executive offices, Mrs. Moroney whispered hoarsely, "You look like her. Mary, it's been so long." Said Mary: "Somehow it feels right...
...signs that "influence lawyers" had successfully quashed tax-fraud cases. Judge Moore indignantly rejected the report and put the grand jury back to work. Then he tried to find out who had been responsible for the whitewash report. In last week's deposition he pointed his judicial finger directly at Ellis Slack, 51, then an attorney in Justice's Tax Division. (Slack became acting chief of the division after Minkman Theron Lamar Caudle was fired...
Most favored of all was the soulful thought that the best way to meet the Soviet challenge was to reform ourselves at home-had we a right to point the finger at anybody else's broadest beam, so long as there was the slightest mote...