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Word: fingerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nidever and his men stumbled toward the scene of the ambush, tracers from automatic rifles laced the darkness, and the finger snap of small-arms fire was punctuated by the sledging blow of mortar explosions. Even under the wavering light of flare shells it was impossible to tell friend from foe. There was a movement, a silhouette running along the road. Was it a Viet Cong guerrilla or a Vietnamese Ranger? Even as the man passed it was impossible to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NIGHT WAR IN THE JUNGLE | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

Senior center Tony Watters is still on the injured list with a sprained knee. Fullback Dave Ward has been troubled by an infected finger, but luckily, that won't hurt his toe. Sophomore Ed Legg has been switched to fullback behind starter Bill Grana, Ward, and Fred Bartl...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 9/27/1961 | See Source »

Last week was characteristic of the campaign's level. Gerosa began a merry-go-round of accusations by pointing a finger at Wagner for using city-paid domestic help in his Long Island summer home (the New York district attorney's office looked into the case, cleared Wagner of wrongdoing). Gerosa also complained that Wagner had run up a $5,605 food bill between June and September 1960 at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence. Bob Wagner rose in righteous indignation. "I," he cried, "am the first mayor to pay my own food bills at Gracie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Woise Than Ever | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...Christ Danced." The current rage of the Riviera, Manita de Plata is one of a handful of guitarists in southern France who get out their instruments after the tourists leave and play the fiercely emotional music that they call their own. Anyone can finger the guitar, they believe, but only the true gypsy can play "flamenco"-a word that to Andalusians literally means "gypsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Little Silver Hands | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...later executed him. In 1938 Ulbricht moved to Moscow to serve Stalin more closely. Of the many other German Communists who sought refuge in Russia, some 3,000 were killed or sent to labor camps by Moscow's harsh dictum. Ulbricht had not so much as raised a finger to protect them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Wall | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

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