Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HELP! The new ring on Ringo's finger puts him in double jeopardy from a couple of mad scientists and a band of Oriental cutthroats. The result is a wild spin cycle of sight gags and exotic locations. The Beatles really haven't much to do except romp along with the frantic action...
Last week Seneca Falls (pop. 7,500), nestling in central New York's bucolic Finger Lakes area, was abustle with a big celebration. Restaurant owner Toots Shor was there. So were Film Magnate Spyros Skouras, Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, Bob Hope, Harold Stassen. And Dwight Eisenhower. They were all present for the groundbreaking ceremonies for Eisenhower College...
Thayer put his finger on the crucial point-and the paradox of the current Guild strike. A union that was originally founded by and for writers, the essential word men of journalism, was striking primarily over the problems of automation-something that is likely to affect remarkably few writers in the foreseeable future...
...Nigerian law. To ensure compliance with Owegbe commands, initiates were ushered through a grisly ritual, cut three times on the cheek or chest, then made to eat the heart of a cockerel and down a loathsome liquid potion brewed from kola nuts and wine and the blood, hair, finger and toenails of a dead cultist. They finally bound themselves to Owegbe with 24 oaths, each ending with a chilling refrain: "If I refuse . . . let Owegbe make juju...
...then he was already hooked on heroin. Despite this, he formed his own group, and in the early 1950s became the dominant figure in the newly emerging "cool school." But he was spending $70 a day for drugs. In 1954, he walked into a Seattle drugstore, stuck his finger in his pocket and demanded narcotics. When the clerk asked to see his gun, he fled. Incongruously, a few minutes later he telephoned the pharmacy to apologize. Police traced the call to his hotel room and arrested him. He collapsed and was removed to a hospital. From his hospital...