Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ignoring his repeated defeats at the U.N., Khrushchev claimed "considerable results" from his trip and called the Soviet anti-colonialism resolution "a great success." He blamed the West, and in particular British Prime Minister Macmillan, for the rejection of his disarmament proposals and warned with a wag of his finger: "If they would like once again to test our strength, we will show them...
...took 25 days, and nearly as many tantrums, for Nikita Khrushchev finally to win a vote in the United Nations. In getting his way, Khrushchev banged his fists, took off a shoe and thumped it on his desk, shook a finger under the nose of a Spanish delegate, and harangued the world in a purple-faced passion...
When a Lockheed Electra plunged 62 persons to their death in Boston Harbor fortnight ago, Administrator Elwood R. Quesada of the Federal Aviation Agency pointed the finger of blame at the flocks of starlings that populate the runway areas of Boston's Logan International Airport. Last week investigators found preliminary proof to indict the starlings, indicated that a flock of 10,000 to 20,000 starlings slammed into the Electra 25 seconds after it left the ground...
...Forbush will start in the nets for the Crimson, unless the weather is inclement, in which case sophomore John Adams will probably play. Forbush, with his dislocated finger taped to the digit next to it, cannot put on the gloves Crimson goalies customarily use in cold or wet conditions...
...short, I fall to see the justification for the derisive and accusative finger pointed at Rockefeller, Civil Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There is nothing immoral or inconsistent in pressing for an adequately controlled disarmament as a first step towards peace and, pressing just as hard for a strong military force and an adequate Civil Defense System. --Robert A. Schnur...