Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruby's parents were separated when he was twelve. His father was a "heavy drinker"; his mother was committed to a mental hospital. In brawls, he twice received severe head injuries, once from a pistol handle. He lost the tip of his left index finger after somebody bit it to the bone. "He thinks he's tough," said Bromberg. "He is a fighter-geared to attack all his life." But he is also subject to "basic emotional instability so severe that occasionally he breaks out crying for no apparent reason...
...drew Soviet fire. Washington's program to curb the spread of nuclear weapons, objected Russia's crusty old Semyon K. ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin, is unacceptable because Moscow regards U.S. plans for a multilateral force of Polaris-armed surface ships simply as a device to give West Germany a finger on the nuclear trigger. Predictably, the Communists also refused to accept the Johnson Administration's proposed pact for renunciation of force in territorial conflicts, since it would specifically restrain them from abetting the Berlin dispute and subversive wars in South Viet Nam and elsewhere...
...morally right or wrong,' but, 'Is it socially feasible, is it personally healthy and rewarding, will it enrich human life?' " Dr. Fisher adds, correctly, that many Protestant churchmen are beginning to feel the same way. "They are no longer shaking their finger because the boys and girls give in to natural biological urges and experiment a bit. They don't say, 'Stop, you're wrong,' but, 'Is it meaningful...
...charges of shooting dice. When the judge asked who owned the dice, each defendant pointed to the other. Gillis then ordered the policeman who was holding the dice to return them to the owner. One of the accused men reached out his hand. Gillis briskly pointed a finger at him and said: "Thirty days...
...Goodman puts his finger on my real fear when he speaks of responsibility. But he shrugs his shoulders. It is a teacher's responsibility to help the student towards maturity, to "wait for" it before enticing him into bed. Adult homosexuality 18 a rough-go. Once initiated, a young person tends to remain homo-or bi-sexual, or returns to heterosexual activity long bearing the guilt and anxiety (however irrational) of his youthful experience. Neither consequence is happy; neither justifies Goodman's fling...