Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jabbing a finger at the audience, swinging uppercuts in air, Nikita promised to sign a peace treaty with Communist East Germany: "We will write finis to the second World War and thereby deprive the West of the right to maintain occupation forces in West Berlin." But for all his fury, his threats had qualifications-the kind of man who gets carried away, Khrushchev also is capable of the controlled tantrum. "When we do this is our business. When we deem it necessary, we won't hesitate. We'll pull the pen from our pock et, for the drafts...
Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system. A patient might have nothing more serious than a cut finger, but the doctor would fill in his form showing "grave lacerations, permanent incapacity probable.'' A Paris arrondissement was thrown into uproar by the report of a case of yaws, which proved to be a physician's whimsical entry for la grippe. In many areas, coroners had to invoke police aid to force doctors to make out death certificates-and quite a few were signed "Paul Bacon...
...Roman Catholic friends to give assurance from the very highest heights of their hierarchy that they believe in complete and absolute religious liberty. Roman Catholicism must come with clean hands and admit her own sin in the field of religious persecution and bigotry before she can dare raise her finger...
...Author White's characters come equipped with megaphones. No one talks; everyone blasts out endless editorials-on the evils of TV. Republicans, Democrats, the American Dream-not excluding Ridge's raven-haired exwife, at whom Ridge makes embarrassing /fl«-passes throughout the novel. Ridge puts the finger on Trumpet's fatal lack-"It had nothing left to say"-but scarcely lifts an editorial finger to remedy the situation...
...Five Finger Exercise. One of the Broadway season's few well-written plays is the work of British Playwright Peter Shaffer, who nearly kills an outsider by shoving him into the deadly crossfire of a devastatingly ordinary and unhappy family...