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Word: fingerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tone it down. During the debate, Adlai Stevenson cited the Declaration of Independence and chided NATO Partner Portugal for ignoring the obvious signals that could push Angola into the same hideous chaos Belgium had bestowed upon its Congo colony. When it was time to vote, Stevenson lifted his fateful finger on the Afro-Asian side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: The Switch | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Know .You." As the delegates met for a leisurely dinner in the Shera-ton-Carlton Hotel, Host Rusk suddenly jabbed a finger in the direction of Canadian Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees. "I know you," he told Hees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Downright Friendly | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...clever little rascal. The first time he saw a water tap he turned it on in a matter of seconds, and the first time he saw a zipper-zing! it was open before Maxwell could lift a finger. He quickly learned to trot around London on a leash, sniff at fireplugs, untie the tightest knot with his teeth, and sleep on his back with his arms outside the covers just as his master did. And whenever Maxwell overslept, Mij darted beneath the covers, ripped them loose and stole the pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet & an Otter | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...theory that Michelangelo combined the Greek pagan ideal of beauty with a profoundly Christian spirit. This will convince only those who find something specifically Christian in Michelangelo's works. It is equally possible to argue that the god of the Sistine Chapel comes from Olympus and that the finger he reaches out to Adam is a linking of minds between Renaissance man and his humanist Greek forebears across the medieval abyss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sculptorama | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...total of more than 3000 years spent in prison." As in the rest of Sicily, hunger and unemployment drive men to crime, and Dolci says it is typical that, though four and a half billion lira were spent in nine years on police measures, "no one has lifted a finger to utilize the waters of a neighboring stream which, properly harnessed, would provide work for everyone...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Radical Innocent | 3/22/1961 | See Source »

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