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Word: fingerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides keeping time by the foot, Seeger's audience was encouraged to snap a none-too-collective finger and sing a rich array of lyrics invoking unknown gods. The spectacle is reminiscent of a certain type of musical therapy now in vogue at various institutions across the country...

Author: By Dick Pollinger, | Title: Pete Seeger | 8/11/1960 | See Source »

Cunningly disguised in a yellow tie and three steel finger-picks, Pete Seeger '40 wowed 'em last night at M.I.T. Mr. Seeger sang and played various primitive instruments (including the banjo) all with equal, if not astounding, facility. Between the lines of the songs he inserted fragments of a compelling ideology...

Author: By Dick Pollinger, | Title: Pete Seeger | 8/11/1960 | See Source »

...affairs than to any other issue thus far in the campaign, Pollster George Gallup indicated last week. Last year Democrat Jack Kennedy led Republican Richard Nixon by a wide 61% to 39% in July. Nixon came back to capture a 51 to 49 edge in September, just after his finger-wagging "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. Since then, the two have seesawed back and forth, a few points apart. Gallup's latest poll showed Kennedy leading 52 to 48 in surveys conducted just after the blowup of President Eisenhower's trip to Japan. Said Gallup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLLS: The Power of Foreign Affairs | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...elder boys were asleep and his wife had gone to the cinema, George Ernest Johnson, 40, a major in the Royal Corps of Signals, carried his three-month-old son's cot into the kitchen of their home in Epsom, 14 miles west of London. Dipping his finger in tap water, Johnson made the sign of the cross on the baby's forehead and baptized him David Ernest James. Then Johnson took a flexible gas pipe, put it on the baby's pillow and turned on the gas. When he returned to the kitchen a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Quality of Mercy | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...part, the Civil Rights Commission, which has seen more firsthand violations of rights than it could shake a finger at, was delighted that at long last it now clearly had the power to shake a subpoena and demand answers to its questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Secrecy & Civil Rights | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

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