Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near-misses, promptly tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just told her." Why should she? Though he had a pistol range outside his Honolulu office for recreation during the war, he hasn't laid a finger on a gun for the past two years...
...mandate for them. But he put off any action that might possibly prove embarrassing until after Nov. 3, and talked about, urgent matters only in generalities. He failed to deliver on his own pre-campaign pledge to furnish a blueprint for "the Great Society." He preferred to point his finger at church steeples and cry of his critics: "God forgive them, for they really know not what they...
...Most of the jests in the book are not too funny. For instance, a "Right-Wing Palmistry Chart" contains an "itchy trigger finger" and a "party line." Instructions for "the extremist dance" include "take one step to the Right" and "swing over to the Left." Yok. A list of "known extremist groups" intersperses organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Muslims with thigh-slappers like the Mickey Mouse Club and Peter, Paul and Mary...
...prefer that the finger on the trigger be guided by Barry Goldwater, not a bumble-brained L.B.J...
Mingus put all his massive energy into the bass. "I'd practice the hardest things incessantly. The third finger is seldom used, so I used it all the time. I concentrated on speed and technique, almost as ends in themselves. I aimed at scaring all the other bass players. One night, around 1940, all the pieces suddenly fit into place. It was suddenly me. It wasn't the bass any more...