Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kremlin dinner, Nikita Khrushchev cried that Russia would abandon Communism "when the shrimp learns to whistle." Wagging a finger at Indians in Bangalore, Nikita warned that each beast has its own food: "You cannot force the buffalo to eat meat; the tiger cannot be made to eat grass." To labor leaders in London he explained the Soviet opposition to nuclear inspection teams: "We don't want people walking into our bedrooms...
Dutch Reformed leaders, unmoved, accused De Blank of pointing "an unclean finger of accusation." It is proper, they said, for the whites to tell the African that they did not wish to accept him in their church, for it would not be fair to expect him to be an imitation of the whites. "Instead the Bantu should serve God in his own church," insisted one Dutch Reformed spokesman...
...exception that proved the rule, in spades: Hilary Belloc, son of British Author-Historian Hilaire Belloc, was letting out the anchor of a 36-ft. ketch when the chain tightened, cutting off half of his ring finger. While Belloc went on to the ballpark and got the remaining part of his finger bandaged at the stadium clinic, his 16-year-old son Martin searched in the shallow water, finally found the missing half. It was delivered to the clinic after Hilary Belloc had left, and was placed in a Dixie cup. Outside the park, Belloc heard that part...
...eggs, fertilized in a finger bowl with five drops of sand-dollar sperm, were put into the individual compartments of a plastic ice-cube tray (300 eggs to a "cube"), and kept in sea water. As they grew, Dr. Karnofsky added various concentrations of drugs known to be useful in treating cancer and noted the kind and degree of their effects. Against this base line, he could test hitherto untried substances and estimate their probable usefulness against cancer. The method will not replace the testing of drugs in animals, Dr. Karnofsky told the American Association for Cancer Research, but will...
...years, most Swedes have believed that Heavyweight Boxing King Ingemar Johansson, 27, and pretty Birgit Lundgren, 23, were much too friendly ever to get serious about each other. But in Stockholm last week, "Ingo" surprised nearly everybody by slipping a plain gold engagement ring on Birgit's finger. Recently back from Egypt, he was asked how much Birgit would fetch on the bride market there. Replied he: "A thousand pounds and 100 camels...