Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambassador," Long said, "came out, pointed his finger at me like this and said sharply, 'Are you Mr. Long?'" Long said Diem then pointed at each of the other three students (including Long's wife Nguyen Hoi Chan '68) in the same fashion...
Long said the ambassador often pointed his finger "belligerently" during the hour-long talk and once commented, "If you are pure Vietnamese, you would not draw up a statement like this." Then, Long said, "he began to threaten. He said, 'Of course, you are now in a free country, and can say what you like. But remember the consequences on the people you love and like...
...defects and in many of these cases the genetic defect has visible, external effects as well as internal ones. The most obvious example: mongolism, technically known as Down's syndrome, in which there may be heart defects along with abnormalities of the hands-flabbiness, thickness, a short fifth finger and a "simian crease" across the palm. Several other genetic, chromosomally determined defects have comparable telltale hand signs...
Typical of rheumatoid arthritis, which may have several adverse effects upon the heart, said Silverman, is an outward turning of the fingers (with the hand viewed palm-down), along with thickening of the finger joints. In many hard-to-diagnose cases of heart disease, say the Atlanta doctors, the skilled physician's careful observation of the hands will yield valuable clues that the stethoscope and even the electrocardiograph do not disclose...
...Polazzo '69 became a famous Harvard person. He led a gigantic drive to increase parietals. Nothing happened, of course. Most people ended up hating his guts for being so pushy. Since then nothing still has happened. While the HPC has provoked academic change merely by lifting its collective little finger, nobody and nothing has provoked the administration to improve the way people live around here. John Polazzo, who used to live here, tried harder than almost anybody else. He finally quit in January...