Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...denunciations merely bounce off the sturdy Afrikaners, just as the spears and arrows of the Zulu warriors used to bounce off their forefathers' laagers, the ring of covered wagons drawn up tightly in defense. "Every time someone stands up in the United Nations and points an accusing finger at South Africa," says a South African journalist, "a few thousand more whites move over to Verwoerd's side...
...retail groceryman. Says New York City Markets Commissioner Samuel J. Kearing Jr.: "When the housewife finds that she has to pay 2? more for bread, her immediate reaction is that the store owner must be making more. That's unfair." Grocers agree: they in their turn point a finger at the so-called middlemen-the wholesalers, packagers and transportation types. These are indeed charging more for their services, but at the same time they themselves are paying higher labor and tax tabs...
When it comes to air pollution, engineers have long pointed an accusing finger at the automobile. Last week the significant reports were in. Based tests made in California on 404 new models, all equipped with the devices required by state law to control exhaust fumes and cut down on engine evaporation, the State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board found that the new equipment had removed 70% of the obnoxious, smog-causing gases...
...fifth-floor flat in Austin's Penthouse Apartments. There he stabbed Margaret Whitman in the chest and shot her in the back of the head, somehow also breaking several bones in her left hand with such force that the band of her diamond engagement ring was driven into her finger and the stone broken loose. "I have just killed my mother," Charlie wrote in a hand-printed note addressed "To whom it may concern." "If there's a heaven, she is going there. If there is not a heaven, she is out of her pain and misery. I love...
...took no chances. With five stitches in his arm and a transfusion of a quart of blood, Speck was transferred under heavy guard the same night to Bridewell Prison Hospital. In the first confrontation between Miss Amurao and Speck in the latter's hospital room, she pointed a finger at him and exclaimed: "That is the man." Shortly before, Speck had suffered chest pains, which were diagnosed as pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart sac, and his arraignment was postponed...