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Word: fingerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost 20 Ibs. in the past year. The intestines and other internal organs, exerting pressure against the muscle wall, found a weak spot at the drain site and forced an opening. A piece of intestine (it may be either the large or small bow el) has pushed through. Finger-tip size in April, it is now as big as a golf ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: A Rupture & a Polyp | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...speaks English well, but with a thick Russian accent. He smokes a great deal (a habit he acquired at 15 when jailed for spreading anti-Czarist propaganda), holding his cigarettes in the European manner -- between thumb and index finger with palm toward the mouth...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: Pitirim A. Sorokin | 11/5/1966 | See Source »

...called the Don Juan of the Slanted Eyes. He disrobed an era of Montparnasse models and claims to have painted 3,000 nudes. He once tattooed a watch on his wrist and a ring on his finger; when wealthier, he capped the radiator of his chauffeur-driven automobile with a Rodin bronze. He arrived in France from Japan in 1913 wearing a purple morning coat and a pith helmet; eleven years later he was the most fashionable painter in Paris. Tsugouharu Foujita, now 79, is a living souvenir of the days when the School of Paris was in kindergarten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Wild Man of Wisteria | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...also the overriding issue during Gromyko's 1-hour 45-minute talk with the President, and U.S. officials concluded from what was said that Moscow would like to see a settlement there, but will not lift a finger toward that end until Hanoi gives the go-ahead. Leaving the White House by the back door, Gromyko headed for the State Department for a shrimp and lamb dinner with Rusk. The talk centered on prospects for a nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. "Gromyko made it very clear," said one official, "that there will be no agreement, now or in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Up the Back Stairs | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...also responsible for keeping everyone in tune, determines the proper bowing for the strings, an all-important factor in correct phrasing. When the maestro wiggles a meaningful finger, the concertmaster responds accordingly and, in an instantaneous chain reaction, his lead is followed by each row of string players and ultimately by the entire orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violinists: Distinguished Fraternity | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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