Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dickinson grew up in the Finger Lakes country of upstate New York, and his first ambition was to be a naval officer. Twice he applied for an appointment to Annapolis, twice flunked the math examination. As a child he had always sketched and drawn; he decided to make art his career. He studied at Pratt Institute, the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design. After a stint as a Navy radio operator during World War I, he lived briefly in Paris. The art world was popping with new group movements in those days, but Dickinson chose a path...
Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, sponsor of the resolution, said that the police had trouble identifying cars with "foreign registrations" that block streets during snow removal. With the passage of the bill, House 2116, "we can put the finger on the right owners and take them to courts in East Cambridge," Vellucci asserted...
...last year he leaped into a box at the Naples San Carlo Opera House during a performance of Il Trovatore to attack a heckling spectator. Two years earlier, at the Rome Opera, he crossed swords with Basso Boris Christoff, who, he claimed, was upstaging him, wounded Christoff in the finger and was slapped with a damage suit...
Canada pointed a disapproving finger at the U.S. - not merely because of competition or the inevitable abrasive rub between adjoining economies. The complaint is that the U.S. controls Canada's economic destiny and holds it back. Long uneasy over the extent of U.S. ownership of Canadian industry and the southward flow of the rewards (60% of all Canadian corporate dividends are paid to foreign investors), Canadians now argue that the U.S. saps Canada's strength, preventing the necessary industrialization for its rising population. At the head of the chorus stands Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, crying...
...Well, for heaven's sake. I ask a simple question, and you blow your top. Sure, Harvard man, just call up in the middle of the night and expect me to have everything right at my finger tips...