Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less persistent than antibody-forming capacity." Reaction to penicillin injections cause an estimated 100 deaths annually in the U.S. What is most tragic about these deaths, say Kalman and his colleagues in citing a number of cases, is that the penicillin was injected for a sprained tee, an injured finger, and mild upper respiratory infections. "Penicillin could have served no useful purpose in these instances...
...intellectuals? The Western image of the intellectual as a man primarily concerned with the quest for knowledge is almost irrelevant. Some Vietnamese regard anyone who does not work with his hands as an intellectual. Thus clerks and even taxi drivers affect the long fingernail on the little finger, mandarin-style...
...Children's Rate. As in the book, Rooster is "an old one-eyed jasper built along the lines of Grover Cleveland." Full of booze and passion for justice, he sees himself as a law and ardor candidate. His politics are symbolized by the itchy trigger finger, and his judicial philosophy is summed up in a tidy homily: "You can't serve papers on a rat." Grousing around a courthouse, he comes on Mattie (Kim Darby), a girl as flat and solid as an oak board. She talks Rooster into giving her his children's rate for catching...
POINTING A FINGER of responsibility at the Federal and State governments, however, does not excuse us from using the tools we now have. The programs administered by the Cambridge Housing Authority are the means by which the public sector can most directly prove that it has answers to the problem, and we have fallen intolerably short of providing that proof. As of today, we have used only about 200 of the 1500 new units allocated to the Authority by the Federal Government. The Modernization Program for Public Housing, approved only this month, took seven full months to make...
...successful in resolving the housing crisis in the City it is absolutely imperative that all cooperate and coordinate their activities toward that end. None can afford the luxury of standing idly pointing the finger of criticism at somebody else. If you are not part of the solution then you are port of the problem...