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Word: fingerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Action. But Philip was out of action with a "whitlow infection" (more commonly known as a boil) on his trigger finger. Accordingly, Nepal's King Mahendra passed the honor to Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Home. Eight times elephants goaded the snarling tigress into the open "firing zone." Three times Lord Home shot. He missed all three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Hapless Hunting | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...individual medley, the finger past points to Bob Kaufmann against standout Midshipman Don . Here Bulldog Dave Burgess will his highly touted, undefeated (2:06.7, also against Griffin...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Swimmers Will Meet Yale or Eastern Championship | 3/4/1961 | See Source »

...President took no pains to hide the fact that he was the man at the keyboard of U.S. foreign policy. It was a virtuoso performance. Sometimes he did finger exercises, sometimes he improvised, sometimes he played by ear. But never did he get so much as a genuine grace note in return from the big brass of the Kremlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Man at the Keyboard | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...last week came a pack of TV and film stars to watch an exhibition of the latest fad in craze-crazy filmland: karate. A more violent cousin of jujitsu and judo, Japanese-imported karate (pronounced kah-rah-tay) aims at delivering a fatal or merely maiming blow with hand, finger, elbow or foot, adopts the defensive philosophy that an attacker deserves something more memorable than a flip over the shoulder. Karate is now taught in more than 50 schools across the U.S., has an estimated 50,000 practitioners. But nowhere has it caught on more solidly than in Hollywood, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Violent Repose | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

Concerned with rehearsing something rushed into production on Louis XIV's orders, L'Impromptu wags a finger in several directions: a little at the King for his capricious commands, a lot at Molière's enemy actors in a rival troupe, a lot more at acting itself. In L'lmpromptu, Molière personally directs the rehearsal, sketches actors' roles, silhouettes their shortcomings, and is now friendly, now irritable, now ironic amid travestied types of people and exaggerated modes of acting. With the Comédie Française players bringing a sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

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