Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans should thank our lucky stars that Lyndon was in the position to take over the reins following the ignominious assassination of Mr. Kennedy. Lyndon, who has long had his finger on the pulse of the nation and the world, knows better than any other American what the score is. John F. Kennedy was, undeniably, a great President, but I have less fear for our country with Lyndon leading it than I have had in many a year. If we will just LET Lyndon lead, we will see a feat of government such as the world has never known...
...because the President had been deeply disfigured. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield fought through sobs to read a eulogy that, although well-meaning, was cruel in its emotion: "There was the sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands...
...intended to make a fist, the servo-electric system relays the signals and his artificial hand clenches in a fist. The lightweight arm is so versatile that the wearer can unscrew a light bulb, lift weights up to 9 lbs., and bend every knuckle on every finger...
...Finger-Fono. All this scriptural activity flows from a paneled, portrait-hung board room on Manhattan's Park Avenue, headquarters of the Society. Founded in 1816, its first president was Elias Boudinot, a New Jersey Presbyterian who served as president of the Continental Congress. In 1819 it began supplying Bibles, New Testaments and extracts to overseas mission aries, and as of 1962 the grand total distributed had reached over 624 mil lion, in languages and dialects ranging from Apache to Zulu...
Since 1835 the Society has provided Scriptures for the blind in both the Braille and Moon systems, and since 1944 it has produced a 831-hour recorded version of the Bible. Its Finger-Fono system plays scriptural extracts on a lightweight plastic player whose turntable is spun by a finger-powered lever. But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries...