Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just Plain Scared. But not even such generally expressed opinions answer the basic question. If Lyndon is less than beloved, then why is he running so far ahead of Goldwater? The answer is easy: Goldwater's public image is that of a man with an itchy finger on the nuclear trigger, while Johnson has managed to portray himself as the responsible, restrained keeper of nuclear peace...
Whose Trigger Finger? What are the facts? Within the context of this year's politics, Goldwater first got himself into nuclear trouble in October of 1963 when, at a Hartford, Conn., press conference, and in his ordinary, offhand fashion, he suggested that NATO "field commanders" (plural) be given greater discretion. about when to use tactical nuclear weapons in the event of attack...
...Atlantic City, Democratic Convention Keynoter John Pastore cried that "on the question of whose finger should be on the trigger of the atomic bomb, that power today rests solely with the President of the United States...
...year ago, when inflationary tides threatened the booming French economy, up stepped French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing to put his finger in the dike. "Every hole where inflation could infiltrate will be plugged," he promised. Shopwindows blossomed with yellow signs promising to hold the price line. Giscard cut back credit, let in a flood of foreign goods to boost competition. When both business and labor howled at the pinch, Giscard donned a V-neck sweater to make a soft-sell pitch on television direct to the thrifty French housewife...
...since restored to health an estimated 10,000 children born with congenital heart defects; of cancer; in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was surgeon-in-chief from 1941 to last July. Until Blalock's operation, "blue babies" (so called because of their blue lips and finger tips) were considered incurable, suffered from such acute lack of oxygen in their bloodstreams that they either died shortly after birth or spent their lives as invalids...