Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MINISTER (gesturing to temple). Oh, they know, all right...they knew. Once. But they must have forgot. That place of worship is like a string tied around their finger...
...buildup of G forces. Outside the window, he could see a fiery glow. It grew brighter and brighter. "It became apparent that something was tearing up the heat shield end of the capsule." Glenn said later. "There were large pieces anywhere from as big as the end of your finger to seven or eight inches in diameter that were coming past the window. You could see the fire and the glow from them ?big flaming chunks...
...hostages for $30 million ransom. But one of Daddy's aides hanged the General and herded Annie and company through a secret passageway to the Warbucks yacht. There, Daddy declaimed the moral: "I recall Teddy Roosevelt's advice! 'Never shake your fist and then shake your finger! That is the sort of Americanism I think an awful lot of us admire...
...sittings, and Koerner felt that "Hesburgh helped me paint it just by being a man of great capacity for compassion and passion." The artist also came away impressed by the subject's sense of discipline: "He would hold the pose for two or three hours without moving a finger...
Bloomfield's novel, which despite its ostensible subject matter is not the least pornographic, leaves its readers impressed but dissatisfied. The author has stated intelligently the case against goodness gone rancid. But too often the moving finger, having writ, fails to move on; instead it remains bonily pointing out a moral or explicating a word derivation. Some of this is helpful, but the reader is spared the invigorating effort and delight of discovery...