Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steal" of the Texas delegation. The strategy was successful, but it engendered a bitterness rare in the history of any political party. Thus the most memorable sight and sound of the '52 convention was Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, who, in pleading Taft's cause, pointed his finger at Tom Dewey and cried, in an anguish of anger and disappointment: "We followed you before, and you took us down the path to defeat...
...other delegates are known to favor the Pennsylvanian. Yet last week, after Goldwater appeared and spoke before the delegation, it voted to go to San Francisco uncommitted, thereby denying Scranton a breakthrough just when he needed one. In Delaware, Goldwater picked up a handful of delegates without lifting a finger; Senator John Williams, who had been set up as a favorite son in a holding action against Goldwater, announced for Barry and promised to release the delegation. In Michigan, Governor George Romney, who has been vociferous in his anti-Goldwater sentiments, warmly welcomed Barry into his state, posed proudly with...
...know nothing of the details of this dispute; but I do know that a producer is an administrative official and not an artistic one, and I do not hesitate to point an accusing finger at Reed. Having brought in a tested director, Reed had absolutely no business meddling in matters of dramatic interpretation...
...human pulse to make playgoers feel sorry for them too. But if a masterpiece may have a flaw, it is perhaps that Chekhov tries to make pathos do the work of tragedy. If the sisters and the men around them draw their breath in pain, they rarely raise a finger against fate. They are small sinners and great talkers. Masha comes closest to making a breakthrough to life by falling in love with an unhappily married colonel (Kevin McCarthy...
Dirksen jabbed an index finger at his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. His voice rose to a slightly higher pitch, taking on an extra tone of persuasiveness. The Senate, he said, had a "covenant with the people. For many years each political party has given major consideration to a civil rights plank in its platform. Were these pledges so much campaign stuff, or did we mean it? Were these promises on civil rights but idle words for vote-getting purposes, or were they a covenant meant to be kept? If all this was mere pretense, let us confess...