Word: fingerings
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...